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From: bnews@nixpbe.UUCP (Martin Boening)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Tired of bogus subject lines?
Message-ID: <519@nixpbe.UUCP>
Date: 13 Sep 89 05:42:29 GMT
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rsk@boulder.Colorado.EDU (Rich Kulawiec) writes:

>Actually the followup "Subject" lines *are* created by software, which is
>how we got into this in the first place.  And, yes, I think junking articles
>with more than 4 lines of signature is an excellent idea.

>---Rsk

Actually the DEFAULT followup "Subject" lines are created by software which
is how we get DEFAULT followup "Subject" lines. Note the DEFAULT! According
to the RFC, that's all it is. It is NOT mandatory(!) (as in mandatory :-))
subject line. It may be edited by users in any way they choose. The only
thing to become mandatory for a follow-up article is the "References" line.
THEREFORE it does not matter what news software DOES set up as Subject.
(To use the four letters "Re: " to start the default subject on followups
is a suggestion, as in: ... If a message is submitted in response
to another message (e.g., is a follow-up) the default subject SHOULD
begin with the four characters "Re: " and the "References" line is required...
)

Note: The "Re: " is suggested (SHOULD), the "References" line is REQUIRED.
So let's just say that a "Subject:" line has NO format and therefore articles
MUST NOT be discarded because of them.

This should be enough to convince inews to send this thing :-)

My opinions, of course (why else should I write them down).

Martin
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