> > Yes. However, if you only want one day, you can just use a cron script to
> > push a digest every day. Not sure how well this works. I wrote the
> > digest.diff patches, which work quite well, for my purposes at least.
>
> Well, the only thing I wonder is, let's say I have a cron entry to push a
> digest at 6pm every evening. If, by some fluke, the digest reset at say
> 5:20, and ther was only one entry of 1.5K in the digest, it would push
> out a tiny one. Thus, a push based on the age of the oldest entry would
> make sure that a digest got out, but not push out something that was
> artifically small (unless the traffic was, of course, very light).
That would be a problem.
That's why I added the code to only make a digest if the oldest article
was at least a certain age (even if that age is 1). I'm currently working
on code to suppress making any digest on the fly. In other words, digests
can only get "pushed" out. I'm planning on using this on quiet lists to
make a weekly digest. Every Sunday one (or more) digest(s) goes out.
The one or more business is because more than one digest's worth might
accumulate over the week.
Yours for better digests,
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Paul Close pdc@sgi.com ...!{ames, decwrl, uunet}!sgi!pdc
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