bill@proxftl.UUCP (T. William Wells) (10/09/88)
In article <1409@zen.UUCP> vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin) writes: : In article <426@gonzo.UUCP> daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes: : >In article <469@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> greg%sentry@spar.slb.com (Greg Wageman) writes: : >>I would like to vote for changing the "Subject:" lines of multi-part : >>postings to be all identical, and have the part numbers be somewhere : >>else. : > : > A lot of archiving gets an Index from the Subject line. : >Without differences between parts 1 and N of a multipart posting in the : >Subject, it would be really hard to figure out what was what. : > : : I agree with Greg, stick the computers data somewhere else. : If "somewhere else" could be agreed upon, then junking or collecting similar : postings would become easier. : : --- my pennies worth --- : : I suggest that since there are already oodles of header lines, another is added : which contains the reference number and part number for the posting. I'd like to offer a better suggestion: comp.archives should be coming into existence shortly (well over 200 votes for, essentially none against); one of the things I am going to do is to keep a registry of available stuff. So, the solution to the subject line problem, and to a whole host of other problems, is to keep things the way they are in the current source/binary/what-have-you groups, and post the relevant information to comp.archives. I am going to open a discussion on the format of comp.archives on comp.misc, to which follow-ups are directed. See you there! --- Bill You can still reach me at proxftl!bill But I'd rather you send to proxftl!twwells!bill