doc@s.cc.purdue.edu (Craig Norborg) (07/18/87)
Hello! This is not a source posting, but an intro to the new
method in which comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga will be run
from now on. As you may notice, the header in this article is quite a
bit different than any headers I have posted in the past. It is taken
somewhat from Rich Salz's methods of posting sources to his group,
comp.sources.unix.
I have decided to do a few things different though. The first
difference is that the 'Archive-Name:' header will be in with the rest
of the headers, instead of in the body of the message. The second
difference is that I will not be including another header which states
the volume and issue numbers, this is already in the subject line, and
I felt it was not needed.
Now, to explain the subject line. The subject line will have a new
addition to it which contains a volume and issue number, or in the case
of non-source postings like this, it will contain an 'info' number. The
first form will look something like this:
v02i001: <Real subject of message>
This says that the posting is in volume #2, issue #1. This will be the
first volume BTW, and all postings made prior to this date will be
considered to be in volume #1. In the case of an info posting like this
one, you will see a header like:
v02INF1: Intro to volume 2
Which says that this is the first info posting of volume 2. I am not
sure yet how many issues will be in each volume and more or less plan
to play it by ear.
I hope you all enjoy this new method and any suggestions on how to
improve it will be gladly accepted! One suggestion that was given to
me that I am yet undecided on was to move the volume info onto yet
another header line called 'Volume:', but I am not sure if this would
be good or not.
Well, onto better things! (Like source postings!)
-Doc