ralph@laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (08/20/90)
In article <-335ZE6@xds13.ferranti.com> peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) suggests: | Is it *really* too much to ask that people include an Archive-name: entry | in postings to alt.sources? It is such a little thing, and saves countless | hours of poring through files with names like "30Jul90.17652". Just put, on | the first line of the message: | | Archive-name: wp2latex/Part01 I am not referencing *all* those subsequent postings concerning those poor souls, etc. I would just like to add that, not only is archival - such as the program `rkive' - helped, but further User news software often uses the "Archive-name:" field to automatically save into an appropriately named shar file. For example: my soon to be released GNUS source archiver which automatically builds shar file names and even uudecodes the file if possible. -- Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU =============================================================================== Reliable software should kill people reliably! -Andy Mickel, Pascal News #13,78