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From: ulmo@ssyx.ucsc.edu (Brad Allen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Some possible fixes for the references line
Keywords: reference
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Date: 25 May 89 13:54:39 GMT
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> I have been making the further suggestion that we find some way of
> spotting sub-root articles (where the topic changes a bit) and asking
> that they be kept, if possible.

This sounds silly and confusing, though you are fairly close to the point.

More sophisticated links, links which have authorship, authentification,
programmability, date, version#, scope, locality, etc.,
or something more on that level, would probably be a better direction now.
We've been using a single References line for a long time now,
it's time something better were desgined.
developed.