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From: crl@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles LaBrec)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: getting rid of Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <1474@pur-phy.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 21-Oct-84 22:02:33 EDT
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Posted: Sun Oct 21 22:02:33 1984
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Reply-To: crl@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles LaBrec)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN
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We once ran notes, but dropped it when it became too much of a hassle
to keep up.  (I won't go into the reasons now, because all this does
is promote a flaming session.  Let me just say that we felt the huge
advantage then of the user interface was not greater than the other
disadvantages.)  I make this statement to show that I at one time had
knowledge of the internals of notesfiles.

Now, I just wanted to address the problem of orphaned responses.  I see
no problem with eliminating these titles.  When an "orphaned" response
comes in, notesfiles generates a "fake" basenote for it to be a response
of (at least, this was my understanding back then).  Therefore, it should
be possible to create a "fake" basenote, with a "proper" title.

As a side note, now with the advent of "rn", I REALLY see no reason
to run notesfiles.  Rn gives you everything you want, plus more.  Plus,
it is completely compatible with the news system used in the majority
of sites, since it is only a news reader, and relies on inews, etc., for
the hard work.  Hat's off to Larry Wall!!!

Charles LaBrec
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