Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site watmath.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton From: bstempleton@watmath.UUCP (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.news Subject: Re: 123456789012345678901234567890123456 - (nf) Message-ID: <5326@watmath.UUCP> Date: Sun, 29-May-83 01:27:09 EDT Article-I.D.: watmath.5326 Posted: Sun May 29 01:27:09 1983 Date-Received: Sun, 29-May-83 23:47:10 EDT References: <81@inmet.UUCP> Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 19 I disagree strongly with the article suggesting people truncate their subjects. Keep your subjects long folks! Perhaps notes will then fix their bugs. I know these are design bugs rather than implementation bugs, but that is no excuse at all. Now that the rest of the usenet is going over to a standard article formath, notes should: 1) Use standard headers, thus get rid of short subjects, the annoying - (nf) appended on the subject and that crap at the front of an article. Few sites these days have the news design bug that strips unknown headers. Surely the backbone sites don't have it at least. 2) Once this is done, allow notes and news to keep their articles in the very same file, perhaps as links if different directory structure is required. B news even tells you now where it put the article. -- Brad Templeton - Waterloo, Ont. (519) 886-7304