Date: Sat, 27 May 1995 15:18:14 -0500 (CDT) From: Aaron Ucko Subject: Re: DIgesters can be OK To: elf AT netcom DOT com Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Organization: Rockhurst College; Kansas City, MO I disagree. The gateway should be message-by-message and immediate; even discounting the delays involved in digestification, not everybody can run procmail or other digest-friendly mailers---I, for instance, am basically stuck with VMS mail. [And my only news access is via Gopher gateways, so I will stay on the list because it's probably more reliable.] --- Aaron Ucko (ucko AT vax1 DOT rockhurst DOT edu; finger for PGP public key) | httyp! Geek code 2.1 [for explanation, finger hayden@ | `God's Laws' (Rudy Rucker, vax1.mankato.msus.edu]: GCS/M/S d(-) H s g+ p? \ _Master of Space and Time_): !au a17 w+ v+(++) C++(+++)>++++ UL++(S+)>++++ \ 1) Be clean. 2) Follow Gary. P+(++) L++ 3(-) E- N+(++) K- W--(---) M-@ V-(--) \ 3) Teach God's Laws. po-(--) Y+ t(+) !5 j(++) R(-) G' tv--(-) b+++ +--------------------------- !D(--) B--(---) e>++++(*) u++(@) h!() f(+) r-(--)>+++ n+(-) y?