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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
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