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Date:  Sun, 3 Sep 1995 09:13:29 -0500

From:  wachal robert s <rwachal[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]BLUE.WEEG.UIOWA.EDU>

Subject: Re: ADS-L Digest - 1 Sep 1995 to 2 Sep 1995



I second as strongly as I can the following message, for I also am a

digester.



Bob Wachal



On Sun, 3 Sep 1995, Automatic digest processor wrote:



> There is one message totalling 23 lines in this issue.

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> Topics of the day:

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>  1. uuencoded files, etc.

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> Date:  Sat, 2 Sep 1995 14:16:32 -0400

> From:  ALICE FABER <faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HASKINS.YALE.EDU>

> Subject: uuencoded files, etc.

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> With regard to the whole uuencoding fiasco, a few comments. My problem with

> the message was not its being uuencoded (if someone sends me something in a

> format I can't read, I won't read it; if they want me to read it, they'll send

> it in a format I *can* read, like good old text!), but its length. I get ADS-L

> in digest form, to keep my mailbox from being cluttered up with 20-30 messages

> a day. When the second message in the digest is 20-30 screens long and

> gibberish, there is a very strong likelihood that I'm not going to hit return

> that many times but instead will trash the whole digest. If I'd done that this

> time, I would have missed a lot of interesting stuff. For this reason, I very

> much appreciate Allan Metcalf's offer to created a mailing list for the NEH

> messages; they're important, but I often don't have time to deal with them,

> and they decrease the likelihood that I'll see the rest of what's in the ADS-L

> digest for that day.

>

> Alice Faber

> faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]haskins.yale.edu

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