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Sun May  2 17:25:55 1982
Re: interface to notesfiles at uicsovax - from a notesfile
#R:watmath:-228800:uicsovax:4300001:000:966
uicsovax!essick    May  2 17:23:00 1982

       As implementor of the notesfile system, I tried my best to hide
all of the unique id and other information from the user. Needless to
say I was not too succesful. I had all sorts of fun in trying to hide
it by making fancy unique id's for news, but the news program wouldn't
accept (1) more the 14 characters for a unique id, and (2) let me
change to something like mod36 and use a-z,0-9 to get my information into
there. It accepts only 'system.#' strings. SO, I had to put it somewhere else.
       I messed up with the subject field, as numerous people have pointed
out to me, but this has been corrected and the number of header lines has
dropped from 4 to 2. The only piece of info left in the header that might
not really be needed is the date the article was written.
       The unique id information (the line #R:some:stuff:here:) is needed
to permit notesfile 'subnets' to correctly associate notes and responses
that come from other notesfile subnets through news.

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