From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!floyd!vax135!ariel!orion!lime!houti!hogpc!hogpd!avi Newsgroups: net.flame Title: notesfiles orphans [FLAME] Article-I.D.: hogpd.22 Posted: Wed Mar 23 20:27:15 1983 Received: Fri Mar 25 06:49:59 1983 I have noticed several people asking why we do not all start using the notesfiles interface for reading our news. Enclosed is one good reason (feature?) where notes is not very informative: --------From hogpc!houti!ariel!hou5f!npoiv!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!CAD:tektronix!zehntel!zinfandel!mark Tue Mar 22 01:26:08 1983 Subject: Re: Orphaned Response - (nf) Newsgroups: net.suicide #R:zinfandel:11700009:zinfandel:11700023:000:25 zinfandel!mark Mar 20 13:22:00 1983 Touche' Mark Wittenberg ----------------- How should I figure out what Mark was talking about? There is no reference to any previous Article ID and the Subject line indicates that the Article Mark was answering had a "parent" that did not exist. Touche to what? Avi Gross (houx?!hogpd!avi)