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- Subject: RE: Digested lists and the Notes channel
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- From: Mark_Strawcutter <mjstraw@grove.iup.edu>
- Date: 11 Sep 1992 20:42 -0400 (EDT)
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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.
-
- Boy, I must have missed that discussion. I couldn't disagree more.
-
- > 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.
-
- It really is a nice fit to VAXnotes. The TOC at the beginning of the
- digest becomes x.0 and each article is x.n. If the whole digest was one
- big note, if you wanted to look at article 15 you'd have to scroll down
- thru all the preceeding text. With it undigested you can "next reply"
- thru quickly or count the TOC lines and go right to it.
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