Nick Simicich wrote: > The problem is that at least some MLM writers are acting as if there > were only one possible digest format --- and to some extent, I think > that they should have called a "collection of mime message/rfc822 > messages" a "collection" rather than a digest. I suspect that most > people think of an RFC1153 format digest when they think of a digest, > and they think of something else when they get a mime format digest.
Funny -- I think most people think of an EDITED-DOWN collection when they think "digest" -- you know, that it's ben pre-digested for them. (Think digest -- think "Reader's Digest.") Most people who are not mailing-list savvy ask why it is they're receiving all of those messages if they subscribe to a digest, and why it doesn't sem edited and selected for them. It's a bad use of an English word for an almost-contradictory geekish meaning.
