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From: lincoln@eosp1.UUCP (Dick Lincoln)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Basenotes in Responses - (nf)
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Date: Thu, 29-Mar-84 15:22:42 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 29 15:22:42 1984
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> Doesn't news associated a reply (followup? what's your buzzword?)
> with the original note?  Can't the new program be changed to
> associate the followups with the base note (e.g. type something or
> other to see the replies to this message). Would seem to make a lot
> of sense, and does not depend on the notes program per se -- even the
> people out in DECnet land should be able to do that.

One of the problems with this otherwise sensible suggestion is that by
the time people get around to reading a reply, the referenced base
article has often been purged from the system.  This has happened to me
so frequently that I always include the pertinent *extracts* from that
to which I reply.