dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West) (09/28/88)
In article <426@gonzo.UUCP>, daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes: > Is "=" that hard to use in rn? No. But not everyone uses rn to read news.
daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) (09/29/88)
Around we go! The original request was so the rn S command would work better. In article <282@itivax.UUCP> dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West) writes: >In article <426@gonzo.UUCP>, daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes: > >> Is "=" that hard to use in rn? > >No. But not everyone uses rn to read news. I've seen followups and gotten mail that disagree, but let me try and say this as clearly as I can: The Subject line should tell you everything you need to pick an article out of an index. Yes, Archive-name: or Part: might help, but then you'd need to adjust your archiving software to the puculiarities of a particular poster or news group. If you stick to Subject, then whatever you do will be guaranteed to work with any reasonaly posted article. Any scheme relying on non-standard headers is going to be a kludge-trap. -dB