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From: rca@cs.brown.edu (Ronald C.F. Antony)
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Subject: Re: Trn and 'subject areas' (was Re: Breaking the group up.)
Keywords: split news group
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Date: 25 Mar 91 04:49:24 GMT
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In article <1205@cash.cs.utexas.edu> garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes:
>the first part of the subject line.  In order to allow subject areas
>with large names we would probably want to develop mnemonics to
>use as abbreviations.  For example, SA: could be system administration.
>APP: could be applications.  HW: could be hardware. PROG: could
>be programming and MISC: for miscellaneous.
>

Well, where applicable, I'd prefer if we would stick to the same
abbreviations used for the NeXTAnswers files. If someone writes a
program that digests all the postings we then could have files with
names like:

area1_area2__areaN.yymmddhhmm.xx

or something like that. Where the date and time is the date and time
of the posting of the message normalized to GMT/UTC and xx is a number
that distinguishes in the case of colliding names (should be a rare
case however..)

References to archived articles would also be very short and accurate
this way.

Ronald
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