Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!BIOVAX.RUTGERS.EDU!hamm From: hamm@BIOVAX.RUTGERS.EDU Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Digest standards? Message-ID: <8706060836.AA10773@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 16:50:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8706060836.AA10773 Posted: Thu Jun 4 16:50:00 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 10-Jun-87 02:46:38 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 21 Two people have recently brought up the idea of a digest standard. This seems like a wonderful idea if it doesn't already exist. However, I don't see it gaining much acceptance unless there is also standard digestify/undigestify software around. Does anyone see any possibility of getting something like this going? What we need is a KERMIT-like thing for digests, with people writing versions for each of the popular mailers on each of the popular operating systems. If this happened, I'd vote for digests, too -- but not until then. Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greg H. Hamm || Phone: (201)932-4864 Director, Molecular Biology Computing Lab || Waksman Institute/NJ CABM || BITNET: hamm@biovax P.O. Box 759, Rutgers University || ARPA: hamm@biovax.rutgers.edu Piscataway, NJ 08854 * USA || ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------