[news.misc] digest formats

welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty) (08/31/89)

i'm about to write a digestifier for the italian-cars mailing
list, and i'm wondering if there is any sort of standard (or
even quasi-standard) format that it would be good for me to follow.

if all else fails, i'll make it look like the articles in the
digestified unix questions newsgroup.

richard
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mdb@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) (09/02/89)

In article <2829502761@lewis.crd.ge.com> welty@lewis.crd.ge.com (richard welty)
writes:

welty> i'm about to write a digestifier for the italian-cars mailing
welty> list, and i'm wondering if there is any sort of standard (or
welty> even quasi-standard) format that it would be good for me to follow.

welty> if all else fails, i'll make it look like the articles in the
welty> digestified unix questions newsgroup.

Check out RFC 934.

	934   Rose, M.T.; Stefferud, E.A.  Proposed standard for message 
	      encapsulation.  1985 January; 10 p. (22340 bytes)

You might also consider obtaining 

	uunet.uu.net:comp.sources.unix/volume6/maildigest.Z

(Mail digest utilities) as a starting point...

Enjoy!
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