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From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: Archive-name
Message-ID: <193@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US>
Date: 21 Aug 90 22:25:04 GMT
References: <1990Aug13.162617.25478@cbnews.att.com> <9008211455.AA02499@talos.pm.com>
Reply-To: wht@n4hgf.UUCP (Warren Tucker)
Organization: Amateur Radio Station N4HGF
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Arkive-Nombre: diatribe-blabber/part01

In article <9008211455.AA02499@talos.pm.com> kjones@talos.pm.com (Kyle Jones) writes:
>Also, how are users supposed to know what's a good name to put in
>the Archive-name header?

I could rephrase your question as:
How are users supposed to know what's a good name for the program they
are posting?

>If the
>archiver is going to provide a decent index, they'll have to look
>at the articles anyway, in order to prepare it. 

Take a look at any "real" group's v##INDEX postings.  The
A-N header --FACILITATES-- the good indexing you want!!

>BTW, I'm all for helping the archivers, but I'd like to see the
>benefits of Archive-name explained in a bit more detail.

I thought all this was *obvious*.  I must be missing something.
Before blowing off such a smaaall request from the experienced who
keep the infrastructure of the net going for us ignorant parasites,
try to gain some experience yourself by studying the structure in
the comp.sources.unix, comp.sources.misc, comp.archives, and
comp.binaries.ibm.pc groups.

It is Very Handy when you are looking for a program named 'foo,'
say, and you do not know that it was posted in Volume 4,
Issues 12-14, patched months later in Volume 6, Issue 5 and
patched again months later in Volume 7, Issue 10.  Instead, you
just need look up 'foo' to find:

foo/part01
foo/part02
foo/part03
foo/patch01
foo/patch02

Without Archive-name, you may never find all the patches or
even know of their existence.

 
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