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Aresearch.129 net.columbia utzoo!decvax!duke!mhtsa!research!sjb Sun Nov 1 11:44:11 1981 feedback >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--

---------------------------------- 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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