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From: wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP
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Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software sol
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Date: Sat, 20-Jul-85 22:50:00 EDT
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In response to isis!burt, who asked about modifying news to take advantage
of References: lines so people wouldn't feel inclined to include half the
previous posting, I will once again leap onto my 'notes' soapbox.

The University of Illinois' notesfile software (see your 4.2BSD user-
contributed software tape or write to ihnp4!uiucdcs!essick) presents related
notes (articles) together. If you're reading a note and want to refer to a
previous note from the same discussion, a backspace or two will take you to
it (or a couple more keystrokes if it's been a long discussion). If the
string of notes gets broken (by people using post instead of followup?) you
can also locate notes in the notesfile (newsgroup) by searching for a
specific author or a specific string in the title (Subject: line).

(Steve Dyer be warned: BBN recently hired a notes fan who may try to convert
you all.)

"When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all."
				Roger Zelazny, *Doorways in the Sand*

						Wombat
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