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Subject: Re: The role of the mailing list
From: J C Lawrence <claw @ kanga . nu>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:39:29 -0700
To: tneff @ grassyhill . org
Cc: list-managers @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: Message from Tom Neff <tneff@grassyhill.net> of "Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:40:08 EDT." <207544937.1026506408@[192.168.254.89]>
References: <7095.1026519806@kanga.nu> <207544937.1026506408@[192.168.254.89]>

On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 20:40:08 -0400 
Tom Neff <tneff@grassyhill.net> wrote:

> Bursting, MIME "digests" etc, are all speculative bits of cleverness
> that programmers thought up in an attempt to "improve" on something
> that was already working and that people liked.

Ahem.  Bursting 1553 digests was explicitly part of the design and
intent of 1553 digests.

-- 
J C Lawrence                
---------(*)                Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. 
claw@kanga.nu               He lived as a devil, eh?		  
http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/  Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live.



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