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From: fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Message-ID: <2106@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 13:48:22 GMT
References: <7921@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <1650@unocss.UUCP> <11521@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <6118@ficc.uu.net> <11527@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <40005@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <521@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <1481@intercon.com>
Organization: U. of Nebraska at Omaha
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amanda@intercon.com (Amanda Walker) writes:

|In article <521@ncis.tis.llnl.gov>, mcb@ncis.tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
|writes:
|> Why not just have NN count the number of Message-IDs in the
|> "References:" header?

|But, Michael, that would be *cheating* :-).

    Actually, the latest release (I believe it's 6.3.7) does exactly that.
But the other day, I followed up to an article, and the references line
on it was "References: <numerous>".  I really hope that was done by the
user and someone's software out there isn't doing it.

-- 
Tim Russell   Univ. Of Nebr. at Omaha   russell@{zeus.unl.edu | unoma1.bitnet}
"I'm against any law that I wouldn't break if I could get away with it."
                                             -- A. Whitney Brown, SNL