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From: rob@array.UUCP (Rob Marchand)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: A thought about USENET.
Message-ID: <507@array.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 26-Jun-87 11:17:15 EDT
Article-I.D.: array.507
Posted: Fri Jun 26 11:17:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Jun-87 11:54:26 EDT
References: <2577@psuvax1.UUCP> <1408@oliveb.UUCP> <841@van-bc.UUCP> <1443@ncc.UUCP> <843@van-bc.UUCP>
Reply-To: rob@array.UUCP (Rob Marchand)
Organization: Array Systems Computing, Toronto, Canada
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In article <843@van-bc.UUCP> sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes:
>In article <1443@ncc.UUCP> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) 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:
>>< 
>>< 	Archive:	sources/games/warp7.2 ( warp7 part 2 of 7 )
>>< 	Archive:	sources/unix/smail2.3.4 ( smail 2.3 part 4 of 5 )
>>< 
> 
>This idea fits very nicely into the self moderation scheme. The original
>message in this series dealt with the problem of self moderation by asking a
>specific question "Is this a source posting?" and then adding the Archive:
>header to signal expire to deal with the article in a special fashion.
>

I like the idea of setting up some automatic archiving of sources.
Any thoughts on setting up a sys file entry to batch source articles?
(Of course, then you end up with two copies until expire trashes the
article) Then have a cron job that processes them once a day,
or whatever.  If the moderator then set out to have the Subject: 
line start with, say, a standard format, e.g.
		    ispell01.shar   (shar file  (no kidding :-)
		    ispell01.pat    (patch file)
(where the 01 was the section number of the distribution)
as the first 'word', it should be fairly simple to set up a shell
script to archive source files based on the Subject: line.  It 
would leave the final decision as to how the source archive was
structured up to the user.  Of course, this would then require
that a moderator, or some such, set up the Subject: line correctly,
or that Pnews, or Postnews, or whatever could generate it via
some simple procedure.  Oh well, more random wanderings for your
amusement....  :-)
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