digest

A periodical collection of messages which have been posted to

a newsgroup or mailing list. A digest is prepared by a

moderator who selects articles from the group or list,

formats them and adds a contents list. The digest is then

either mailed to an alternative mailing list or posted to an

alternative newsgroup.

Some news readers and electronic mail programs provide

commands to "undigestify" a digest, i.e. to split it up into

individual articles which may then be read and saved or

discarded separately.