I don't know whose idea it was to start sending the daily digest
in a formatted version, but I vote against it.  It just takes up more space.

On a similar note, the other day the digest was 4000 lines long,
only about 10% of which was content; the rest was embedded HTML code.
There was a one-line comment from Ralph with 800 lines of pointless code,
and a brief note from I forgot who else with over 1000 lines.

At 02:00 AM 11/15/2005, you wrote:
>There are 3 messages totalling 458 lines in this issue.
>
>Topics of the day:
>
>   1. ''What happened was bad,'' he says ''but others had it much worse.''
>   2. [forum-l] Primer for Rusty Metal Surfaces
>   3. Eiffel
>
>--
>To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the
>uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to:
><http://maelstrom.stjohns.edu/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>
>
>-------------------(huge snip)------------------------
>
><= /HTML> -------------------------------1131997161--
>------------------------------ End of BULLAMANKA-PINHEADS Digest - 14 Nov
>2005 to 15 Nov 2005 (#2005-14)
>*************************************************************************

Martin C. Tangora
University of Illinois at Chicago
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