mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) (01/05/90)
Uhh...I don't mean to complain, especially considering the long period of silence that has just been broken, but... I run automated software on my PC that takes the comp.binaries.ibm.pc stuff, downloads it from the Unix host, and puts it in a directory based on the Archive-Name: header. When all the parts have arrived, it checks them with Brik, and if everything's okay, it glues them together and uudecodes them. If the uudecode went okay, then it deletes the parts, after first grabbing the description portion of part01 and the Summary: line. Later on, another automated utility posts a message to a local message base (I run a BBS on this machine) announcing the new program. Yet another automated program takes the new item from c.b.i.p and places it in the file area, using the Summary: header (with a little massaging) as the file description. Now, I think this is all very slick. It works quite well, most of the time. However, ever since Keith stopped putting the Archive-Name:, Checksum:, etc. headers in (as well as deviating from the original format of the Summary: and Subject: lines), my auto-archiving program has failed to work. Because it can't find the Archive-Name: header, it doesn't know what to call the file. Because the Subject: line isn't in the proper form, it can't figure out how many parts the posting has (so it knows when they're all there). Because there isn't a Checksum: header, Brik barfs on it. Now, as I mentioned before, I'm not trying to raise a big fuss. Certainly, postings not in the proper format are better than no postings at all. However, it would be nice if Keith could go back to Rahul's format, if only so the other sites that archive c.b.i.p won't miss these articles. -- Marc Unangst | "The only limit to our realization of Internet: mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us | tomorrow will be our doubts of today." UUCP : ...!uunet!sharkey!mudos!mju | - Franklin D. Roosevelt Fidonet : Marc Unangst of 1:120/129.0 +--------------------------------------- BBS : The Starship Enterprise, 1200/2400 bps, +1 313 665-2832
w8sdz@eddie.mit.edu (Keith Petersen) (01/05/90)
[Discussion regarding "non-standard" headers used in my postings]
The postings I made to cbibmpc were only a stop-gap measure during the
period of inactivity in that newsgroup. Now that the moderator is
back, I will not be posting any more programs.
I did not have the necessary tools to automate the extra headers
normally used in that newsgroup. I'm sorry if that caused anyone
problems. I figured that the readers would rather have something
posted than nothing at all.
I hope the next moderator will make arrangements for someone to fill
in when he or she will be unable to make postings. It's not fair to
the readers to just disappear without a word.
Keith
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