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Sun Nov 1 11:44:11 1981
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>From ucbvax!ucla-s!lauren Sun Nov 1 00:13:13 1981
Full-name: Lauren Weinstein
Subject: space vs. columbia
To: ucbvax!research!sjb
Frankly, I don't think columbia is really providing THAT much in the way
of immediacy over a digest. Because of UUCP scheduling delays and such,
many sites don't get much more than one feed a day anyway. This means
that when the stuff finally comes in, all they see is a string
of bulletins (5 tiles, no 10, no 12...), with only the last one being
really up-to-date. One daily summary entry in the digest would probably
be just as useful, and make better use of the available bandwidth as
well... for some people these items cost money.
--Lauren--
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To: ucbvax!ucla-s!lauren
Subject: space vs. columbia
I see your point. However, take the example in which
nothing flows into the space digest for a few days.
This means that the time between two digest could be
as great as 4 days (remember when OTA was away and
we got a whole big digest at once?) I do agree that
one summary can be advantageous over 4 or 5 little
blips, but sometimes the few separate articles make
more sense separate than they would together. Also,
I cannot anticipate when I will have enough to put
out one summary. On school days, I read my news at
3 points, before school, at 5:30, and again at 8:00.
I usually consolidate any articles that come together
at one point and put them in then, but I don't usually
hold them over to the next point.
In all, I agree that net.columbia is not perfect and
has its flaws. User response like this helps to correct
them and make suggestions as to what should be done.
Keem 'em comin'!
adam
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