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From: andytoy@watdcsu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,news.misc,news.admin
Subject: Re: Wish list
Message-ID: <3398@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 21-May-87 02:34:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.3398
Posted: Thu May 21 02:34:52 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 22-May-87 01:30:57 EDT
References: <969@bobkat.UUCP> <419@dasys1.UUCP>
Reply-To: andytoy@watdcsu.UUCP (Andy Toy - DCS)
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In article <419@dasys1.UUCP> rsweeney@dasys1.UUCP (Robert Sweeney) writes:
|In article <969@bobkat.UUCP> pedz@bobkat.UUCP (Pedz Thing) writes:
|>everyone who responds to an article to post it as a response, do not
|>change the title, and keep all of the appropriate info in the header
|>to make it look like a response.  Frequently I have to resort to the
|>kill file technique just to get around something that the k key could
|>and should solve if everyone cooperated.  Do not think that your two
|>cents on a subject is completely revolutionary and requires a whole
|>new base article even if the subject has drifted off the original
|>topic.
|
|How about introducing an item into the message header called a conversation
|code (or something to that effect).  It need not be displayed when you read
|the message - it's for "internal use only."  A code is generated when a
|message is posted that does not refer in any way to a previous message.
|All subsequent followups and such are given the same conversation code. The
|"k" and associated commands would seek out and junk articles bearing the
|same code, rather than using the unreliable subject field.

First of all I think that the subject should reflect the contents of
the article and that the Subject field should be edited in such a way
as to include the original subject as well as the current topic of 
discussion (i.e. "Subject: something new (was nothing new)).  Maybe 
there should be an "Original-Subject:" field so that "kill" will
work on that instead of the "Subject:" field.  Personally, it doesn't
bother me to press 'k' an extra time when I come across an article
about an old subject, but with a new subject line.
-- 
Andy Toy, Department of Computing Services (DCS), University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA N2L 3G1, (519) 885-1211 x3416
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