ajcd@cs.ed.ac.uk (Angus Duggan) (08/11/90)
In article <6443@helios.ee.lbl.gov>, leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres) writes: > Peter da Silva writes: > > 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: > > Yes, I think it *really* is. > > The poor suckers can't remember to post alt.sources discussion to > alt.sources.d, how do you expect them to remember to add your header? >... I don't think that because other people can't remember to follow the etiquette, or add archive-name headers, is any reason not to do it yourself. I added archive-name headers to my recent posting of pbmtopk precisely because of Peter's persistent reminders to the world (hope they worked, Peter :-). > > Personally, I think you should just give it up (and I'm sure you'll > flame me for saying so). Meanwhile, the rest of us will just kick back >... No flame, just despair that the "poor suckers" don't use (un)common sense. > Craig A. == Angus Duggan, Department of Computer Science, | Ignorance of the manual is University of Edinburgh, JCMB, | no excuse. The King's Buildings, Mayfield Road, | JANET: ajcd@uk.ac.ed.lfcs Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, Scotland. | OR: ajcd%lfcs.ed.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (08/12/90)
In article <159@skye.cs.ed.ac.uk> ajcd@cs.ed.ac.uk (Angus Duggan) writes: > I added archive-name headers to my recent posting of pbmtopk precisely because > of Peter's persistent reminders to the world (hope they worked, Peter :-). It worked fine here and at sugar, and (I presume) anywhere else they use "arcnews" to do the archiving. -- NAME: Peter da Silva. WOLF: `-_-' PSTN: +1 713 274 5180. 'U` DNS: peter@ferranti.com BITNET: Oavzgsz@AcadiaU.CA