Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!apple!well!pokey From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: alt.sources archiving Message-ID: <10985@well.UUCP> Date: 16 Mar 89 08:17:07 GMT References: <727@vector.UUCP> Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal Lines: 24 In the referenced message, chip@vector.UUCP (Chip Rosenthal) wrote: }Personally, I'd like to see something like: } Submitted-by: My Name } Posting-number: Volume 89 } Archive-name: pgm_name }This leaves off the "Issue" part of the "Posting-number" field. Roll the }volume number annually. 12 chars or less on archive name, please, to }allow for ".Z". Comments? Why do you need Submitted-by: when you already have From:? Why do you need a number, especially if it's only going to change once per year? Why do you need a separate Archive-name:, when some simple conventions for what goes in the Subject: line would work even better? Why do you want to store the postings in a filename specified by the poster, with all the security issues that brings up? What's wrong with just saving the posting in a numbered file, grepping out the From: and Subject: lines to save in an index, and compressing the file? --- Jef Jef Poskanzer jef@helios.ee.lbl.gov ...well!pokey "I delete letters like this all the time. I couldn't care less."