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- Subject: RE: Digested lists and the Notes channel
- Message-ID: <01GONQAUPNC69FM7LA@INNOSOFT.COM>
- From: Ned Freed <ned@innosoft.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 12:54:40 -0700 (PDT)
- Organization: The Internet
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- There currently isn't any way of undigestifying messages before passing
- them to NOTES. I asked about this publicly when I originally developed
- the channel and the general repsonse was that undigestifying was Wrong
- and possibly even Evil. Since I'm not a VAX NOTES user I don't have any
- real opinion myself, so I elected not to provide such an option (I do have
- lots of other things to do...). I have since encountered (as expected)
- people who think such a thing would be nice to do, but too late for
- anything in V4.1. It is on the list for V4.2.
-
- If you saw the code necessary to do a good job of this you'd understand
- why it is far from trivial. We're talking roughly 2000 lines of code
- here to handle all the cases (MIME digest format plus all the older
- formats). Fortunately this code exists in PMDF for other reasons; it is
- only necessary to fit a bunch of calls into the NOTES channel to make
- use of it.
-
- Ned
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