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From: page%rishathra@Sun.COM (Bob Page)
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Subject: Re: "Archive-name:" proposed change
Keywords: multiple part postings
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Date: 31 Mar 89 20:40:04 GMT
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I'm not a fan of the 'part X of Y' stuff in the archive name because
moderators tend to miscount.  Even so, I do it in the subject line.
If you want to add XofY info, you can get it from there and add it to
the archive name at your leisure.  The R$-supplied 'post' programn
that many moderators use does this in a standard format.  Just don't
start flaming when you see 'Part Y+1 of Y'.

greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel) proposed something like:
>Archive-name: fun/hangman/V01r01-src/Part01of03

The problem with this is the sites that use things like tar and cpio
to store the entire collection of a posting.  I've had a couple of
requests to limit my archive names to seven unique characters,
so folks could archive the postings as 'pgmname.CPIO.Z' and
still fit in 14 characters (the current SystemV limit).  I'm not
sure how the above proposed archive-name would work for those sites.

..bob
Bob Page    page@sun.com    sun!page    415/336-2745