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Hi Jan,

On 24 November 2000 at 08:34:46 -0500 (which was 13:34 where I
live) Jan Rifkinson wrote and made these points:

Marck>> [...] There is an agreed (RFC) standard for "MIME" digests.
Marck>> This is a way of including the multiple messages that comprise
Marck>> a digest a series of separate attachments. This is much more
Marck>> convenient than the standard method, which involves joining the
Marck>> multiple messages within a single long text message. [...]

JR> I didn't know this existed & it sounds like a terrific
JR> improvement. I wonder why it is not used by eGroups, for example.

It's  a  matter of which listserv engines support it. Ours doesn't for
example.  eGroups  doesn't. I don't actually belong to any lists which
*do* have MIME digest capability. And yes, it is terrific :-).

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 Cheers,
 .\\arck
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