Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari!basser!john
From: john@basser.oz (John Mackin)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v04i083: 3demo program - part 1 of 4
Summary: Please keep part numbers in the subject header
Message-ID: <1490@basser.oz>
Date: 26 Sep 88 09:34:25 GMT
References: <8809101533.AA21029@philmds.dts.philips.nl> <1020@vsi1.UUCP> <1571@ficc.uu.net> <469@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>
Organization: Dept of Comp Sci, Uni of Sydney, Australia
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In article <469@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>,
	greg%sentry@spar.slb.com (Greg Wageman) writes:

> I would like to vote for changing the "Subject:" lines of multi-part
> postings to be all identical, and have the part numbers be somewhere
> else.  This is so that the "-S" option of rn can find all of the parts
> of a posting before moving onto the next subject.

Well, I admit I wouldn't mind being able to `k' a whole source
in one go.  But how hard is it just to hit `n' n times?  Not very.
Not nearly as hard as it would be to work out whether all the
parts were there, and which parts weren't, if the `=' command
couldn't display the part numbers.  In my view that outweighs
the other considerations.  So please keep the part numbers in
the Subject: header -- and let's hear it for an early release
of rn 5.0!

John Mackin, Basser Department of Computer Science,
	     University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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