On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 6:12 PM, John Sessoms <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It's because I'm coming through the digests, and it says not to reply to:
>> "Re: Contents of PDML digest..."
>
> By the time I was on mailing lists around 1994, it was already clear
> that digests needed to die a horrible, painful death.
>

Digests needed to die the moment UUCP did. But UUCP really required
digests to make mailing lists livable.

The sad part is that UUCP didn't die until a couple years after 2000.
I was a happy camper when the routes file at UUNET Canada went away.

-Adam
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http://www.mawz.ca
Explorations of the City Around Us.

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