Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines? Message-ID: <13774@looking.on.ca> Date: 14 Sep 89 17:21:01 GMT References: <1650@unocss.UUCP> <112@blekko.UUCP> <6120@ficc.uu.net> <699@philmtl.philips.ca> <12715@looking.on.ca> Reply-To: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Lines: 13 Class: discussion Oh yes, too much software depends on Re: to change it now. I am just saying I felt it was a mistake to put a big piece of non-info in the header like that. The software should have relied on References: and References should have been made to work. But don't expect that on USENET, where there hasn't been a usable advance in the capability of the file format in around 5 years. To do things today, we would have to make the 'Summary' line the *real* Subject of the individual article, and leave the Subject: line as a piece of non-information. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473