Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!zen!vic
From: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Subject line for multi-part postings
Message-ID: <1409@zen.UUCP>
Date: 2 Oct 88 13:52:40 GMT
References: <8809101533.AA21029@philmds.dts.philips.nl> <1020@vsi1.UUCP> <1571@ficc.uu.net> <469@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> <426@gonzo.UUCP>
Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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In article <426@gonzo.UUCP> daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
>In article <469@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> greg%sentry@spar.slb.com (Greg Wageman) writes:
>>I would like to vote for changing the "Subject:" lines of multi-part
>>postings to be all identical, and have the part numbers be somewhere
>>else.
>
>            A lot of archiving gets an Index from the Subject line.
>Without differences between parts 1 and N of a multipart posting in the
>Subject, it would be really hard to figure out what was what.
>

I agree with Greg, stick the computers data somewhere else.
If "somewhere else" could be agreed upon, then junking or collecting similar
postings would become easier.

--- my pennies worth ---

I suggest that since there are already oodles of header lines, another is added
which contains the reference number and part number for the posting. 

			vic
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