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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Archiving Sources (was alt.sources archiving)
Message-ID: <1589@fig.bbn.com>
Date: 20 Mar 89 21:38:55 GMT
References: <448@ssbell.UUCP>
Organization: BBN Systems and Technologies Corporation
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In <448@ssbell.UUCP> kent@ssbell.UUCP (Kent Landfield) writes:
>(Rich, are you listening ? Is is time for a posting of post.c ?)

Yeah, I'm here. :-)  I dunno if the world really needs to see "post.c"
my impression is that only the really conscientious would use it (although
your idea of hacking Pnews/Postnews is a good one), and those folks
tend to send things off to moderators, anyhow.  (And then there's all
those nasty legal issues, post.c is copyright and trade-secret.)  (Just
kidding.)

I think the only way alt.sources is really gonna work is as a beta-release
for stuff that shows up in the real, moderated newsgroups.  Of course,
I'm biased, and Piercarlo Grandi's recent postings may prove me wrong.
CRISP may help prove me right :-)

>I can't see how the Subject: line would work "even better".  The Subject 
>line should be used for informing us as to what the contents of the archive 
>member are in English, not some cryptic "convention".
Yeah, I tried cramming all info into the Subject line, and it turns
people off.  As Brad Templeton has pointed out, READER time is what
counts most on Usenet, and it's unfair to take descriptive space away
to put something like an archive name.  Volume/Issue stuff could go away,
but folks like to know right away that they've found a gap.

	/r$
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