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From: SYSRUTH@utorphys.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: RE: digesting info-vax
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Date: 20 Apr 88 17:32:00 GMT
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Can you explain to me how digesting is going to reduce the volume of
info-vax? Sure, you might get a smaller *number* of MAIL messages, but
there will be just as many articles in them, and they'll be bundled up
in such a way that VMS MAIL is agonising to get through them - you
can't reread an individual article, you can't delete individual articles
with a single keystroke, you can't save articles individually in some
filing scheme that makes sense (in fact you can't do any of these things
with rn, either).
     
About 90% of info-vax I don't keep. The 10% I do keep I want in a reasonable
form. I don't want to have to forward the damned digest to myself and
edit out all the bits and pieces I don't want.
     
As to your question "when is SOMEBODY going to digest info-vax" - I guess
the answer is "when SOMEBODY VOLUNTEERS to do it"!
     
Well ... ?
     
Ruth Milner
Systems Manager
University of Toronto Physics
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