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From: msb@sq.uucp (Mark Brader)
Date: Tue, 13-Sep-88 15:00:37 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Sep13.150037.26518@sq.uucp>
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Re: don't forget tor.news.stats
References: <1988Sep9.155024.4475@lsuc.uucp> <1988Sep12.132417.29832@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: msb@sq.com (Mark Brader)
Distribution: tor
Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto

> > Someone
[that was me, actually]
> > 's suggested that the date be included in the Subject: header
> > for lsuc's postings.  I prefer not to, since if I do find myself
> > reading t.n.s., I can more easily skip what I don't want with rn's
> > k command.

> My comment: No!  I am only interested in specific site postings, the
> rest are in a kill file.

This is an argument for "yes"; *adding* the date to the Subject line
does not make it any harder to use kill files to kill on a site basis,
as long as the sitename stays there too.

Now consider the = command.  This becomes much more valuable if the
date is there, because you can see when things are out of sequence.
On the other hand, as dave said, the k command becomes harder to use.
So does the ^N command.  I don't use either; I use =, pick specific
messages of interest, and c the rest.  But then, I'm not a newsadmin anyway.

Mark Brader			Summary of issue:  Fix FORTRAN-8x.
SoftQuad Inc., Toronto		Committee Response:  This proposal contains
utzoo!sq!msb				insurmountable technical errors.
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