Re: Kinder, Gentler Undigest

From: Howard Schwartz (theo@ccnet.com)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:34:39 -0400

>An even better way, IMO, is to not subscribe to the digest version in the
>first place and instead use Yarn's filtering to place list traffic into its
>own pseudo newsgroup where it is conveniently threaded.
>--
>John A. Stanley jstanley@gate.net

This is not an ``even better way'' for me because: Each single digest
message represents perhaps a couple dozen messages, if these messages
were to be processed one at a time.

I dont want the server on my ISP processing hundreds of messages a week,
and I dont want yarn's import command processing hundreds of messages
either. The reason is the same in both cases: On the surver side,
the more message traffic I get the greater the chances of mishaps with
locfiles, procmail, software downtime and other typical server-related
mail problems (of which my Verio company has plenty).

I have also found yarn's import command to be somewhat unreliable when
processing large files or large volumes of messages in a single file.
For me and others, errors and corrupt files occur with some frequency.

For all these reasons, I would rather move one (digest) file all the
way to a yarn folder, and then split it up using programs I trust.