--On Saturday, July 13, 2002 2:12 PM -0400 Nick Simicich
<njs@scifi.squawk.com> wrote:
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> I looked up digest in a very abridged dictionary I happen to have on my
> computer, and it has four meanings. three verb meanings: (1) the food
> meaning (2) the mental absorption meaning (3) "To organize into a
> systematic arrangement" and the noun meaning: "A collection of written
> material in condensed form". I suppose that it could be argued that the
> material is condensed in the 1153 format --- all of those extra headers
> and footers are removed, and in some cases, attachments and other forms
> that go with the individual messages are removed. ...
It could be -- and is -- thus argued!
A Digest concentrates several (or many) works into one convenient format,
eliminating the "overhead" of collecting them individually. That is
precisely what an RFC1153 digest does well. A MIME "digest" is just a box
of books of all sizes, shapes and formats; a real Digest is an omnibus
volume that you can pick up and read.
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