At 10:17 PM 2/21/99 -0800, Michael C. Berch wrote:
>As for the reason for digests, they were very popular when mail
>transports were slow, less reliable, and often batch-oriented (like UUCP
>polling). And mail reading programs were much less sophisticated in
>terms of sorting messages. People who want to read messages from a
>mailing list all together can easily sort them into a folder, or use a
>selection function to pick them out of the inbox. I think the heyday
>of digests is probably behind us.
That is why a third or more of my users are on digest? The answer is that they want
to "skim".
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