From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!mclure
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: cca!z vs. alice!sjb - (nf)
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.5300
Posted: Wed Mar  9 07:00:53 1983
Received: Fri Mar 11 20:48:51 1983

#N:sri-unix:8200011:000:874
sri-unix!mclure    Dec 10 05:08:00 1982

I think the basic problem is this: z wants to read digests even if the
same contents are available in a net.foo group.  sjb sees this as a
redundancy wherein the messages are sent twice everywhere on the net
that receives fa.foo, clearly a waste of resources, and also as a
further resource eater of .newsrc space.  The fact that many fa.foo
groups had been inactive for a long time because Berkeley had turned
them off is somewhat irrelevant because any Arpanet site could have
gatewayed them with minimal effort.  I guess cca was doing this?

So the question is, do we want to allow digests and the resultant
duplication of data transmission as a convenience for people who
prefer digest format to individual message format? I say no because
that is what such things as notes are for. Digests are a hold-over
from the overloaded central Arpanet mail-system-site.

	Stuart