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- From: aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Atari binaries postings. A comment...
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- Date: 2 Sep 92 15:14:05 GMT
- References: <1992Sep1.161809.634@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Aug28.224808.19274@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1992Aug31.175413.20955@cbnewsk.cb.att.com> <180168INN7id@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Reply-To: aa700@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Current)
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- In a previous article, ichamiel@nyx.cs.du.edu (Itay Chamiel) says:
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- >re: info-atari-8 readers:
- >NO! The Digest has less messages if there is one big one, since
- >the digest completes itself after ~600 lines. Which means that a reader
- >can just stop reading it, since there is nothing after it. Of course,
- >there is an exception if it a shortish file... (~300)
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- Say the digestifier has collected about 500
- lines worth of postings for the next Digest. Now somebody posts a
- 2000-line .uue file. This produces a 2500-line Digest. And no, that big
- file will probably NOT be at the end of the Digest. This is because within
- a Digest postings are arranged not in chronological order but in
- alphabetical order by subject. That's why Digest readers experience the
- strange phenomenon of reading answers to questions before the questions.
-
- While I'm at it: It's FEWER messages. (I'm one of those people that
- appreciates grammar.)
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- Michael Current, Cleveland Free-Net 8-bit Atari SIGOp -->> go atari <<--
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