From: yanek@novavax.nova.edu (Yanek Martinson)
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 92 06:30:11 PST
To: rchilder@us.oracle.com (Richard Childers)
Subject: Re: verification of posting
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> Of course, the HBD is a digest, not a mail list ... but it occurs to me,

Digests also introduce a time-delay.  You can have almost-realtime
discussions with an immediate reflector.  

It is possible to have both.  On many mailing lists (such as future-culture
for example) you can "subscribe realtime" or "subscribe digest".

> comes out once a day, it has ( usually ) a table of contents at the top,

I suggest that even if we don't have a digest, we could still have a
"table of contents" at the end of the day.

> and, if one received email telling where in the queue one's message was,

You would not need a receipt message, you would just check to see if you
message appeared in the index.


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