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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
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Posted: Sun May 29 01:27:09 1983
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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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