From: Andrew Main <zefram@tao.co.uk>
To: mason@primenet.com.au
Cc: zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: Archiving patches (Was: Current state of 3.1.2)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:33:44 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199710090933.KAA20641@taos.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrn63osas.sb0.mason@coral.primenet.com.au> from "Geoff Wing" at Oct 9, 97 05:53:32 am
Geoff Wing wrote:
>Downside: lazy/ignorant people don't remove Cc: lines so you get lots of
> followups which aren't always relevant, and you can't just weed out
> messages which reference other valid patches because they may be
> patches too. Then you get lots of people who won't put proper
> Subject lines on when the topic changes.
Do what the NoCeM standard requires: any message whose Subject: line
starts with "Re:" doesn't count. If in looking for patches one looks
for "Subject: *PATCH:", then replies to patches won't be inadvertantly
matched.
-zefram
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-10-09 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-10-08 13:27 Current state of 3.1.2 Wez Furlong
1997-10-08 14:43 ` Bruce Stephens
1997-10-08 16:46 ` Timothy J Luoma
1997-10-09 5:53 ` Archiving patches (Was: Current state of 3.1.2) Geoff Wing
1997-10-09 9:33 ` Andrew Main [this message]
1997-10-09 17:42 ` Timothy J Luoma
1997-10-09 17:34 ` Timothy J Luoma
1997-10-09 17:55 ` Andrew Main
1997-10-09 18:06 ` Timothy J Luoma
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