Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: alt.sources.d Subject: Re: wp2latex (1 of 4) Message-ID: Date: 14 Aug 90 15:58:15 GMT References: <-335ZE6@xds13.ferranti.com> <6443@helios.ee.lbl.gov> <-Z45SQ2@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <1990Aug14.003446.19241@NCoast.ORG> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 16 In article <1990Aug14.003446.19241@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR/KT) writes: > As quoted from <-Z45SQ2@ggpc2.ferranti.com> by peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva): > | It's not *my* header. It's the standard header on *every* posting in *every* > | moderated sources group. It's a de-facto standard for everyone on the net. > alt.sources isn't moderated.... Which is why I'm making this request, and trying to pursuade people to put the header on postings to alt.sources. Heaven knows, some of these people are first class programmers. It's not that hard, and there's certainly no good reason to *not* put the header in there. > They split it because the news software often rejects it otherwise. They shar > it because the net flames them if they don't. Well, consider this a kindler and gentler version of the same thing... -- NAME: Peter da Silva. WOLF: `-_-' PSTN: +1 713 274 5180. 'U` DNS: peter@ferranti.com BITNET: Oavzgsz@AcadiaU.CA