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From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
To: Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr>
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Evren Yurtesen wrote:

> what is the difference between a mailing list and a digested
> mailing list?

On a normal mailing list, messages are sent out immediately to
subscribers. With a digest list, the messages sent to the main list are
saved into a directory, and are sent out periodically in a batch to the
digest subscribers.

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Ben Smithurst
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