Michael C. Berch wrote: > Later, other lists were produced in the form of automatically or > semi-automatically produced digests which were simply concatenations of > the submitted messages, usually with reduction in the individual > headers. Since they resembled the moderated, hand-produced digests, > they got called digests too. > And so on from there. But the first digests were, indeed, digests in > the classical publishing sense.
Indeed -- as a former TELECOM DIGEST subscriber, I remember it well. And some people still do that -- Ron Buckmire's lists.qrd.org lists, I believe, run edited flavors as well.
