Re: ddigest problems

From: James N. Grace (afn45694@afn.org)
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:52:12 -0400

In article <c0r41I0t8hlQ092yn@netside.net>,
rveraa@netside.net (R P Veraa) wrote:
>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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Thanks for your responses!

The solution to my problem was to change my particular Digest
subscription settings to send me separate messages, instead of one big
message that had to be "dedigestified". I guess that I don't even need
DDIGEST now!

Thanks again...

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