> RFC 1153. RFC 1630 describes URL/URI, _not_ digest format.
Ah, hum, well it was late... And I misread my index, sorry 'bout that :)
>
> } I don't believe there's much of a standard format out there.
>
> I think you might want to consult:
>
> Subject: FAQs: A Suggested Minimal Digest Format
>
> ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/faqs/minimal-digest-format
I did read this, I even considered using if, but I have foud very few
FAQs actually using the format and I didn't find it very easy to parse
without a browsing tool. So in the end I dropped it in favour of a
regular text format.
> } > * Do people really use it, and are any other programs readily able to read
> } > this format?
> }
> } Not that I know of, I use it because it makes it easy to move whole
> } sections around and because it can sort sections alphabetically.
>
> Most newsreaders "do" RFC1153, or something conformant with the subset
> described in the FAQ.
I think the question refered to the Emacs outline format, not to the
digest format...
Does anyone here use digest ? (should I be using it ?)
Fred.
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