Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!uunet!steinmetz!vdsvax!barnett From: barnett@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP (Bruce G Barnett) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: A thought about USENET. Message-ID: <1940@vdsvax.steinmetz.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 12:19:25 EDT Article-I.D.: vdsvax.1940 Posted: Mon Jul 6 12:19:25 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jul-87 05:56:11 EDT References: <2577@psuvax1.UUCP> <1408@oliveb.UUCP> Reply-To: barnett@ge-crd.arpa (Bruce G Barnett) Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY Lines: 43 In article <2774@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes: >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" >++Brandon along the same lines: I have another method - which is a variation of the savenews program distributed with News 2.11 (original by Chuq Von Rospach). It will take any article and store it under /savenews/newsgroup/yy-mm/article-id It also creates a log file, one for each newsgroup. Example: /savenews/LOGS/comp.sources.misc comp.sources.misc/87-04/2432.ncoast Welcome to comp.sources.misc comp.sources.misc/87-05/2486.ncoast Adventure Shell Chuq's original used a hashing scheme instead of the yy-mm value. Using the yy-mm scheme makes it easier to archive to tape the older stuff. Also - part n of m postings usually end up in the same directory. Thirdly, I can sort the log file somewhat chronologically. I also compress older directories. I have made some other minor changes that handle some of the strange Message-ID's of TOPS and VMS machines, in addition to Rev C news articles. It can archive any article, but it looks like it should be changed to make use of Brandon's header. If you like - I can send you the patches. p.s. Thank you, Brandon and Chuq. -- Bruce G. Barnett (barnett@ge-crd.ARPA) (barnett@steinmetz.UUCP)