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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
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Posted: Mon Jul  6 12:19:25 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Jul-87 05:56:11 EDT
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Reply-To: barnett@ge-crd.arpa  (Bruce G Barnett)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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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.




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Bruce G. Barnett  (barnett@ge-crd.ARPA) (barnett@steinmetz.UUCP)