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Re: Questions about Archive-name: headers

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 1990 14:44
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In article <3135.26a1fe54@mccall.com> tp@mccall.com writes:
> that the posting number header is for use by automatic archiving programs.
> So is the archive-name header. Will these programs work in the absence of a
> posting-number header?

The one I use will.

> 2) Is anyone archiving vmsnet.sources anyway, or is this all academic at
> this point?

We're archiving all the sources we get our hands on, but if it doesn't have
an archive name it gets shoved onto a little-used machine until someone can
get around to figuring it out.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
+1 713 274 5180.
<peter@ficc.ferranti.com>
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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Questions about Archive-name: headers
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Date: 17 Jul 90 14:44:49 GMT
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