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.
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