🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <JIK.91Apr28012246@pit-manager.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>In article <1991Apr26.155106.10943@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM> kent@sparky.IMD.Sterling.COM (Kent Landfield) writes:
>
>   This is being done with the Environment: header line in comp.sources.games.
>
>1. Non-standard header lines are, in general, a bad idea.  For
>   example, the header lines that rn is capable of manipulating (i.e.
>   showing vs. hiding) are hard-coded, and it can't deal with any
>   lines that aren't in its hard-coded list (obviously, this is a
>   major lose, and some newsreaders {such as xrn} have overcome this
>   difficulty, but it's still a problem).

That's why the c.s.g. Environment: header isn't a news header, but rather
a package/archive header. That is, it is included with the Archive-name:
and Submitted-by: headers. This way, it should be saved by any newsreader
as long as the article is saved, rather than exploded in place (w| unshar).

It is true that it limits you to only one line, but if the list of
limitations is longer than that, I would suggest that either a better
keyword could be used tha encompasses everything or else the package is
really specific to a single machine/OS.

Don't get me wrong - I think for c.s.reviewed it makes sense to include the
limitations in with the other introductory material that is being generated.


	-Bill Randle
	Moderator, comp.sources.games
	Tektronix, Inc.
	billr@saab.CNA.TEK.COM