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From: jkh@jade.BERKELEY.EDU (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: mod.rec.guns
Subject: Those darn headers.
Message-ID: <1431@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Fri, 10-Oct-86 14:19:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 10 14:19:48 1986
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Author: Jordan K. Hubbard

Article: 10:29

Well, I'm sure most of you have seen my latest attempt at automation
in the last 27 or so articles. I had such a back-log of articles after
my vacation that I didn't have the heart to go through and edit each
one manually (which is what I've been doing). I wroke some sed scripts
that went through cheerfully munging and ripping the articles headers
into what appeared to be acceptable shape. Almost. It seems that the
articles I looked at were fine, but some had screwy headers or text
addressed to me personally. These, of course, were the ones I didn't look at
until they'd already been posted (this doesn't mean that I have stopped
checking for non-gun related articles, I still skim through for that stuff).

What we can all do to make my life easier is to adopt the following
standard header:

Subject: blah blah (always *always* include the subject!)
Keywords: (optional)
In-Reply-To: (optional)

Anything else will be munged by the sed scripts.
If you wish to include comments to me personally, do it this way:


	*------------------------------------*
	blah blah blah blah.
	blah.
	*------------------------------------*

I will have the sed scripts look for matching sets of *--...--* lines
and delete them and *everything* in the middle. I picked *---* because
it seems to be relatively unique.


						Thank you.

						Jordan.