Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> writes:
When looking over forw today, I came across the code that handles digests
(which I guess is the companion code to "burst"). So, I was wondering ...
do people use this? I'm not really suggesting it be removed, I'm just
trying to understand the use cases.
Wow, I remember using this command a lot back in the day when it was
real handy to string together a thread of messages in a digest for my
own consumption or to pass along to a friend. Mail and news readers were
a lot more digest-friendly in the Golden Days of Usenet.
I'd be hard-pressed to remember the last time I used it, or to
articulate a use case. Still, it would be good to keep, as you say.
On a related note, I use burst on forwarded messages a lot to either
promote the forwarded message to the scan line, or to reply to a
forwarded message.
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