C70:info-cpm (08/07/82)
>From GZ@Mit-Mc Sat Aug 7 06:28:25 1982
I'd prefer a digest, as long as the delay is no more than a day or two on the
average. I would not mind a space-enthusiasts type digests, i.e. automatically
formed, add-me requests & occasional duplicates and all, with no editorial
"moderation" ala human-nets, and hence minimum time drain for the maintainer.
This also guarantees reasonably fast redistribution (limited by the number
of submissions, not by the moods of the maintainer) and lack of censorship,
things that some people have expressed concern about.
I just want the stuff to come to me once a day in a bunch.
Secondly, I don't consider lack of undigestification software on the unix
news system to be a valid reason for not going digest. It's such a trivial
thing to do. They have several thousand people using the thing, let somebody
write the 1 page program that's needed and distribute it to all the sites.
In any case, that shouldn't affect the decision for the whole list, they
can always stay direct as a special (hardship?) case.