From: utzoo!watmath!idallen
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards,net.news.b
Title: Identify program error messages, please!
Article-I.D.: watmath.3082
Posted: Thu Jul 22 22:16:58 1982
Received: Fri Jul 23 00:19:18 1982

Programs that issue error messages should always, always, always
prefix the message by their invoking name.  I've just seen three
"can't stat" messages come after doing an inews and while doing
a readnews.  Do I know which program they came from?  No.
I'll have to mess around needlessly to find out where the problem is.

Please, all you Wizards and programmers, label your output!
This is so very important in a multi-process environment where
messages could come from any of several concurrently executing
processes.     -IAN!    U of Waterloo