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From: bright@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Bob Bright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT disk, memory upgrades (was Re: TT sales)
Message-ID: <1991Jan31.163111.2442@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 31 Jan 91 16:31:11 GMT
References: <15164@milton.u.washington.edu> <38525@cup.portal.com> <38650@cup.portal.com> <1991Jan30.134735.1@simvax.labmed.umn.edu>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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A small (and I hope reasonable) request for Bob Retelle and other
members of the comp.sys.atari.bashers.club:

Would it be possible for you to add a uniquely identifying string to
the subject line of all your posts and followups?  Something short and
to the point, like "[abc]".  This would serve two purposes:

1. My enjoyment index for comp.sys.atari.st increased dramatically
when I created a KILL file with these two lines:
     /cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu/h:j
     /Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com/h:j
However, I'm usually no more interested in the followups to your posts
than the originals themselves.  I can weed out most of the followups
by changing the "h" to an "a" in the lines above, but then rn has to
scan the full body of each article for your address, which can take an
annoyingly long time if I haven't had a chance to catch up on the news
for a few days and there are a lot of articles pending.  If you were
to put "[abc]" in the subject line, then rn could catch all of your
posts as well as followups to them just by scanning the headers.

2. If all ABCers adopted this convention (are you listening, Chris?),
then rn could do a _single_ pass through the headers to weed out all
of the bash trash, saving considerably more time.

Come to think of it, there might be a third benefit:

3. On those rare occasions when you want to contribute something
useful to the group, you could simply omit the "[abc]" in the subject
and the rest of us could read what you have to say, instead of junking
all of your posts indiscriminately.

Retelle and Mauritz should obviously be charter members of the Atari
Bashers Club.  Others could be nominated by net consensus, should the
need arise (and assuming a cooperative spirit all around).  And of
course, everyone is free to admit themselves to the Club on an
occasional or permanent basis, simply by sticking the appropriate
string in their subject line.

So what do you say, guys?

BBB
-- 
Bob Bright <bright@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Dept. of Philosophy
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, Man  R3T 2N2  (204) 474-9680