Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site pur-phy.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!CS-Mordred!Pucc-H:pur-phy!crl 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 Article-I.D.: pur-phy.1474 Posted: Sun Oct 21 22:02:33 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 23-Oct-84 01:54:32 EDT References: <427@amd.UUCP> <-1025375@sneaky.UUCP> Reply-To: crl@pur-phy.UUCP (Charles LaBrec) Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., IN Lines: 23 Summary: 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 UUCP: pur-ee!Physics:crl, purdue!Physics:crl INTERNET: crl @ pur-phy.UUCP