knutsen (04/09/83)
#N:sri-unix:1000046:000:1071 sri-unix!knutsen Apr 7 14:43:00 1983 Id like to ask a question Ive been wondering about for some time. Are the two lines notes adds at the start of a message really necessary? They dont bother other notes users, but they are rather unaesthetic for everybody else. I realize that there may be a purpose in those lines, but in the current environment they seem to do more harm than good. Responses seem to be organised according to subject (title) (and regardless of the "- (nf)", another questionable item). There is a date in the header. Very few sites use the privilege features. Basically, what I would like to know is, what would happen if I flushed those lines from the notes composed at this site? Andrew Knutsen, SRI PS I should mention that I use the notes system a lot because it is in many ways superior to readnews; however this makes those few problems grate a bit more. The only other thing that bothers me is the somewhat cumbersome and vulnerable storage method, which makes access to the data from other programs a bit difficult (it also causes problems for incremental dumps).