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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news
Subject: Re: Request to submitters - (nf)
Message-ID: <533@cbosgd.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 5-Nov-83 18:23:27 EST
Article-I.D.: cbosgd.533
Posted: Sat Nov  5 18:23:27 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Nov-83 05:46:02 EST
References: <2306@hp-pcd.UUCP>
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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Adding more funny colon lines will not work.  We've had a standard for
indicating such things for some time (see RFC 850), the References line,
but notesfiles does not support it.  (In fact, no changes have been made
to notesfiles to support the B news format in 2 years.)  There is no
hope of even getting all notesfiles sites to make such an enhancement,
much less any of getting B news sites to start adding funny colon lines,
and much less of getting the people who are posting followups using the
new article mechanism to use them.

News automatically generates the References line.  Let's use that.
And please use the followup command, not inews or postnews, when you
follow something up.  That way software can key on References or Subject
to group discussions.

	Mark Horton