Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!wyse!vsi1!ames!pacbell!rtech!gonzo!daveb
From: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: rn (was Re: Subject line)
Message-ID: <429@gonzo.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 88 08:35:25 GMT
References: <8809101533.AA21029@philmds.dts.philips.nl> <1020@vsi1.UUCP> <426@gonzo.UUCP> <282@itivax.UUCP>
Reply-To: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Organization: Gonzo Media Group
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Around we go!  The original request was so the rn S command would work
better.

In article <282@itivax.UUCP> dhw@itivax.UUCP (David H. West) writes:
>In article <426@gonzo.UUCP>, daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
>
>> Is "=" that hard to use in rn?
>
>No. But not everyone uses rn to read news.

I've seen followups and gotten mail that disagree, but let me try and
say this as clearly as I can:

	The Subject line should tell you everything you need
	to pick an article out of an index.

Yes, Archive-name: or Part: might help, but then you'd need to adjust
your archiving software to the puculiarities of a particular poster or
news group.  If you stick to Subject, then whatever you do will be
guaranteed to work with any reasonaly posted article.  Any scheme
relying on non-standard headers is going to be a kludge-trap.

-dB