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Message of Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:58:15 +0100 from <ERIC@SEARN> |
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Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Queretaro |
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On Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:58:15 +0100 Eric Thomas said:
>Release 1.7f will introduce an automatic digestification function
>allowing subscribers who do not have the time to read large numbers of
>messages as they arrive to subscribe to a digestified version of the list
>instead...
> ...........The third
>parameter is either "Daily" (the default), "Weekly" or "Monthly". The
>last parameter is optional and specifies when the digest is to be
>actually distributed.
I really like this idea, but just when I was going to suggest a further
improvement....
On Thu, 7 Jan 1993 01:19:34 EST Larry Rondot said:
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>Will it be possible to place a size limit on the digest? What I would like
>too see is the ability to cut a digest once a week into as many volumes
>required to keep each volume under a given limit (200k).
I definitely have to side with Larry on this. One of the main criteria I would
have for establishing the cutoff limit would be the size of the individual
digest, even if this means having to send out more than one digest a day
(as in the case of extremely active lists, such as INFO-IBMPC or INFO-MAC).
Note that I would prefer to ship out a digest as soon as the limit is reached,
whereas Larry would wait till a specified time limit and then split up the
thing into as many bits as needed.
This may also alleviate the problem of overflowing the A-disk (or wherever
the digest is being accumulated).
Thanks, Eric, for your continued interest in improving an already great
product !
Juan
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