Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!clyde!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: A thought about USENET. Message-ID: <2774@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 22:56:48 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.2774 Posted: Fri Jul 3 22:56:48 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 5-Jul-87 07:39:41 EDT References: <2577@psuvax1.UUCP> <1408@oliveb.UUCP> <841@van-bc.UUCP> <1443@ncc.UUCP> <843@van-bc.UUCP> <507@array.UUCP> <240@netxcom.UUCP> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 45 As quoted from <240@netxcom.UUCP> by ewiles@netxcom.UUCP (Edwin Wiles): +--------------- | In article <507@array.UUCP> rob@array.UUCP (Rob Marchand) writes: | >In article <841@van-bc.UUCP>, sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes: | >< If this line could contain additional information such as the suggested | >< file name to store the posting then the expiration process could do a much | >< more intelligent job of saving the information. For example: | >[edited]...If the moderator then set out to have the Subject: | >line start with, say, a standard format, e.g. | The problem with either of these methods is that some systems have file | name size limits of 8 characters, some of 14, some of 32, and some have | no limits. There would always be some poor person whose archiving gets | stomped on because some poster didn't make sure his file names were no | more than 8/14/etc... characters long. Leave it up to the moderator to | make sure that the file names are of an acceptable length and the delay | in posting will really get out of hand. +--------------- My submissions to comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc contain a new header line: Archive: newsgroup/mmdd/seq example: "Archive: comp.sources.misc/8707/4" If you don't have BSD filenames, just change the dots to slashes and in general it'll work fine (barring MS-DOS, Eunice, and other brain-dead operating systems). However, don't depend on my archiving them -- ncoast is cramped for space (cbosgd just made us the N.E. Ohio news feed -- most of last night's load ended up on the floor, and I ended up sacrificing archival space to make room in the spool filesystem for news). ++Brandon -- ---- Moderator for comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc ---- Brandon S. Allbery!cbosgd!hal!ncoast!allbery ('til Aug. 1) aXcess Company {ames,mit-eddie,harvard,talcott}!necntc!ncoast!allbery 6615 Center St. #A1-105 {well,sun,pyramid,ihnp4}!hoptoad!ncoast!allbery Mentor, OH 44060-4101 necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.HARVARD.EDU (Internet) +01 216 974 9210 ncoast!allbery@CWRU.EDU (CSnet -- if you dare) NCOAST ADMIN GROUP Brandon Allbery on 157/504 (Fidonet/Matrix/whatever) * ncoast -- Public Access UN*X -- (216) 781-6201, 24 hrs., 300/1200/2400 baud * * ncoast is proud to be carrying alt.all -- contact me for more information *