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Article #4729INN vs subject-line-based newsreaders looking for `INN'
From: Paul Eggert
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 19:31
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 19:31
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The NN newsreader has a handy `nngrab' command that finds all articles whose subject line contains a given string. E.g. `nngrab -c RCS' finds all articles mentioning RCS. Unfortunately, `nngrab -c INN' finds a lot of noise because of cancel messages, e.g.: a Wade Blomgren 1 >cancel <1hss24INNnl7@network.ucsd.edu> b Ruiz Alejandro 1 >cmsg cancel <1hk9a2INN99q@phakt.usc.edu> c Gerald Edgar 6 >>cmsg cancel <1hn75kINN436@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> d C Schittel 0 >cmsg cancel <1hprl7INNmbj@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.DE> [... many other cancel messages omitted ...] y.Rich Salz 9 >>INN newbie has innd, nnrpd, trn interaction questions [... that was the first useful article ...] Perhaps INN could be changed so that it doesn't put the string `INN' in its Message-IDs; this would make it easier for subject-line-based newsreaders to find out more about INN itself. No doubt NN experts can suggest an NN-specific workaround for this problem, but the whole point is to make things easier for newcomers. Besides, if we uniformly substitute something short like `.' for `INN' in Message-IDs, just think of all the bytes we'll save!
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Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nn Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucla-cs!twinsun!eggert From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert) Subject: INN vs subject-line-based newsreaders looking for `INN' Message-ID: <bk^'j#5$@twinsun.com> Sender: usenet@twinsun.com Nntp-Posting-Host: bi Organization: Twin Sun, Inc X-Newsreader: NN version 6.4.19 Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 19:31:48 GMT Lines: 21