Re: ddigest problems

From: R P Veraa (rveraa@netside.net)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:33:16 -0400

In article <frh41IqTIIbS092yn@afn.org>,
,afn45694@afn.org (James N. Grace) wrote:

>The pseudo newwsgroup list.test contains only 20 messages. Tuesday's
>messages completely overwrote Monday's. I have performed this
>experiment in reverse order also (using Tuesday's digest of 20 messages
>first and then Monday's digest of 13 messages). What happens is the the
>pseudo newsgroup still only contains 20 messages, but the first 13 are
>from Monday's digest and the last 7 are from Tuesday's digest. It is
>obvious what is happening. The newly imported messages are overwriting
>the old ones.

That's the way I'd expect it to work. It handles one digest at a time.
When you're through replying, you delete the temporary directory.

TTFN, Rachel

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