Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!rtech!gonzo!daveb
From: daveb@gonzo.UUCP (Dave Brower)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: 3demo program, really Subject line
Message-ID: <426@gonzo.UUCP>
Date: 24 Sep 88 22:13:21 GMT
References: <8809101533.AA21029@philmds.dts.philips.nl> <1020@vsi1.UUCP> <1571@ficc.uu.net> <469@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM>
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In article <469@snjsn1.SJ.ATE.SLB.COM> greg%sentry@spar.slb.com (Greg Wageman) writes:
>On an unrelated subject:
>
>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.  With the part
>numbers in the subject line, each part becomes effectively a different
>subject as far as rn is concerned.
>
>Thanks.

No thanks.  A lot of archiving gets an Index from the Subject line.
Without differences between parts 1 and N of a multipart posting in the
Subject, it would be really hard to figure out what was what.

Is "=" that hard to use in rn?

-dB