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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Headers (was Re: v01i241: pkzip file archiver v0.92 (part 01/04))
Message-ID: <6595@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 89 01:31:38 GMT
References: <6177@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1056@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <1056@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> jbrown@jato.UUCP (Jordan Brown) writes:
>I do have one comment on the CBIP headers - the Subject: line should stay
>the same for all files in a group so that kill files and subject-thread
>code work.

There was discussion in some other newsgroups about how subject lines
differing slightly were difficult to kill.  One good suggestion that
came out of that discussion was to modify news readers to treat
material in parentheses as a comment, and have only that part change.
Precisely for this reason, I always put the "part xx/xx" part in
parens.  So that if somebody, somewhere, has modified his news reader
to treat that as a comment, killing the subject will work.

Perhaps one day this convention will be standard.  For now, you will
have to hack your news reading program.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi
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