Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!caip!seismo!lll-crg!styx!nike!cad!ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!psivax!friesen From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Newsgroups: net.news.group,net.abortion,net.misc,net.motss,net.philosophy,net.politics Subject: Re: reorganization of soapbox newsgroups Message-ID: <1221@psivax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 27-May-86 19:47:31 EDT Article-I.D.: psivax.1221 Posted: Tue May 27 19:47:31 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 30-May-86 04:52:37 EDT References: <8433@kestrel.ARPA> Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen) Organization: Pacesetter Systems Inc., Sylmar, CA Lines: 28 Xref: watmath net.news.group:5769 net.abortion:3203 net.misc:9721 net.motss:2959 net.philosophy:5538 net.politics:16445 In article <8433@kestrel.ARPA> king@kestrel.ARPA (Dick King) writes: > >Has anybody determined how much volume would be reduced if there were a >protocol that would allow messages to incorporate pieces of other >messages by references? Something like >, reindented by ">> "> >(placed in an outgoing message which would have a header line >Incorporations: <2139@cbosgd.UUCP> >which would be inserted by the operation that includes the text of the >original.) > The main problem with this is also the main reason for inclusions in the first place. It is called *expiration* of articles. By the time a reply gets back to my site from the other end of the net 3-4 weeks after the original article, the original is *long* since expired and gone! How then is the inclusion mechanism going to *find* the article, given that it has been deleted! Whatever solution we apply to the inclusion problem, it *must* address the problem of allowing review of the original material on sites where the original has been expired. I personally try to keep my inclusions as small as possible without destroying the context, but that is a very subjective criterion. -- Sarima (Stanley Friesen) UUCP: {ttidca|ihnp4|sdcrdcf|quad1|nrcvax|bellcore|logico}!psivax!friesen ARPA: ??