Jim Hyslop wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> You're supposed to undigest digests back into their component messages >> after receiving the digest > > Interesting. I didn't know that (and I suspect most people like me who > are learning to kick the Windows dependency habit probably don't know > that either :-).
I'll chalk that assumption up to the lack of decent mail handling facilities for windows. > I always thought a digest was for end-user convenience, to keep the > inbox from getting cluttered. That would be a list summary, and something most mailing list software and sites don't support because of it's limited usability. > Am I correct in presuming, then, that the > idea behind digests is to reduce the number of emails transmitted from > one host to another? That would be the case. It's sometimes easier and less troublesome to accept one all-encompassing email with component messages to break out than to accept a few hundred in a deluge throughout a 24-hour period. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
