From: pcalvert@economics.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: ADMIN : Archives and stuff
Message-ID: <1992Sep25.160100.1@economics.adelaide.edu.au>
Date: 25 Sep 92 06:31:00 GMT


In article <Bv1qKA.5on@apollo.hp.com> John Francis writes:
...
>Please don't re-post anthologies of previous postings to the same group!

Agreed 100%  Please restrict the group's use to the charter.

>If there is sufficient demand for collected digests, why don't we form a
>new group (alt.pub.dragons-inn.digests? .story-so-far?) to put them in?

I dno't think this is necessary, 
but I won't object to a RFD in news.groups

>Another thing that could be useful would be a list of all the Message-IDs
>that make up a particular thread.  That way, archivers could recreate a
>thread from the original articles as and when needed.
>I'm working on putting a list like this together, but would appreciate
>any help others could give - sorting nearly 3000 articles into threads
>is a non-trivial effort!

I have a list of people who have been archiving both EVERYTHING and
some who have archived particular threads.
One major problem though, article numbers is NOT a good way of refering
to articles, as the propogation of news postings means that some sites
will receive articles before others, and article numbers will then not
match. If you manage to find two separate news servers that agree on
all article numbers I would be *very* surprised.

If you believe a thread is worth saving, then archive it separately,
and squirrel it away somewhere. I have done so with the Dougl thread
(which I think was the first coordinated thread) and am doing so with
the [KQ] thread. The aim of this is to eventually novelize them, and
include them in "Tales from the Dragon's Inn" if that project ever
gets off the ground.

One more point: be careful if you send me a message by replying to 
an article I post. If the sender is pcalvert@economics. etc, then
fine, but I'm posting some stuff from a different
news reader and replying to this will send a message to 
..sage@[whatever.server.you.are.on]
So sue me for figuring out how to change the sender field :)

First "this week in review" revival post following shortly from my
'other' newsreader.
						...sage

email:  pcalvert@economics.adelaide.edu.au,  sage@maria.wustl.edu, 
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