Aunc.1313
net.news
utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb
Thu Oct 22 18:36:11 1981
followup articles
I think that some method for follow-up articles is necessary.  While
no scheme that doesn't require the user to cite an original article
will work perfectly, I'd suggest the following for version B netnews:

       Sort first on newsgroups (currently implemented).

       Sort all articles by title, recognizing the following three forms as
       equal:
               title
               Re: (articleid) title
               Re: title

       Within such groups, sort by date of submission (this should be included
       in the header in some form -- getdate() can calculate it given a
       permutation of the info in the human-readable line).

       Sort groups by submission date of the first item.

       Perhaps as an option, if the first item in a group is a reference
       to an earlier one with (articleid) included, insert that article
       as well (if it still exists here, of course -- no error if it doesn't).

       Provide a 'followup' command which would generate a new article
       with a title of the second form given above.

Comments on desirability or feasibility?

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