I will give you a real life example:
I subscribe to a daily mailing list that sends all of it's messages in
one file, not separate; this is why I am using DDIGEST. Let's say that I
downloaded Monday's digest mailing that is a compilation of 13 messages.
DDIGEST separates all of the messages perfectly and places all 13 (now
separated messages in a pseudo newsgroup named list.test. The newsgroup
list.test now contains a grand total of 13 messages. Tuesday rolls
around and I download Tuesday's digest mailing that is a compilation of
20 mesages. DDIGEST separates all of the messages perfectly and places
all 20 (now separated) messages in the pseudo newsgroup list.test. It
was my thinking that list.test should now comtain a grand total of 33
messages, 13 from Monday + 20 from Tuesday. This is NOT what happens!
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.
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