Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!array!rob 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 Lines: 40 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.... :-) -- Rob Marchand UUCP: {watmath,mnetor}!utzoo!dciem!array!rob Array Systems Computing ARPA: rob%array@seismo.css.gov 200-5000 Dufferin Street Phone : +1(416)736-0900 Fax: (416) 736-4715 Downsview, Ont CANADA M3H 5T5 Telex : 063666 (CNCP EOS TOR) .TO 21:ARY001