MCMANIS@Usc-Eclc@sri-unix (08/10/82)
From: Chuck McManis <MCMANIS@Usc-Eclc> The system you have described is very similar to CDC's Plato Note system. (or PNOTES for those Plato hackers out there) That system essentially collects notes in a general information file for a particular subject, and when replys for a particular message are recieved it connects them ring-buffer style to the original message in the note file. Then when you read a note that has replys a message to the effect of (6 replies) appears at the top. Then pressing the special key "LAB" lets you read replys pressing "NEXT" gets the next message. As you may have gathered all of this could be handled by an intelligent mail program on the site system, without someone having to sort through them. Since the "standard" mailer response note has "re: header line" which will identically match the senders header line we have an easy way to correllate messages. I know this isn't micro stuff as such but in terms of the digest question I think we have enough computers around to condense the mail automatically. --Chuck -------