Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bbn!clsib21!blblbl!mipseast!rogerk From: rogerk@mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: Re: digesting info-vax Message-ID: <362@mipseast.mips.COM> Date: 28 May 88 19:16:34 GMT References: <8804201644.AA17997@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <2071@uoregon.uoregon.edu> Reply-To: rogerk@mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc., Burlington, MA Lines: 26 In article <2071@uoregon.uoregon.edu> dboyes@drizzle.UUCP (David Boyes) writes: >No. The point of digesting is to reduce the naieve, duplicate or just >plain wrong answers. *NO.* The point of MODERATING is to reduce the naieve, duplicate or just plain wrong answers. One thing has nothing to do with the other. The moderator of a non-digest list merely edits each message and sends the acceptable ones on to the list, whose recipients can then decide which ones to read or discard by subject, original poster, etc. >Digesting a mailing list also makes putting the >information into a database a LOT easier, as digests are usually >edited into a standardized format and have most of the unnecessary >header lines and delivery information removed. ...but it makes reading by an individual without a database or an undigestifying tool ridiculous. If you're so hot on writing a tool to load a database, surely you can figure out how to deal with standard headings, which to keep, which to discard, etc. -- Roger B.A. Klorese MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. {ames,decwrl,prls,pyramid}!mips!rogerk 25 Burlington Mall Rd, Suite 300 rogerk@mips.COM Burlington, MA 01803 I don't think we're in toto any more, Kansas... +1 617 270-0613