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Re: Archiving patches (Was: Current state of 3.1.2)

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From: Andrew Main <zefram@xxxxxxxxx>
To: mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Archiving patches (Was: Current state of 3.1.2)
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 1997 10:33:44 +0100 (BST)
Cc: zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <slrn63osas.sb0.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "Geoff Wing" at Oct 9, 97 05:53:32 am

Geoff Wing wrote:
>Downside: lazy/ignorant people don't remove Cc: lines so you get lots of
>          followups which aren't always relevant, and you can't just weed out
>	  messages which reference other valid patches because they may be
>	  patches too.  Then you get lots of people who won't put proper 
>	  Subject lines on when the topic changes.

Do what the NoCeM standard requires: any message whose Subject: line
starts with "Re:" doesn't count.  If in looking for patches one looks
for "Subject: *PATCH:", then replies to patches won't be inadvertantly
matched.

-zefram

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Archiving patches (Was: Current state of 3.1.2)
  - From: Timothy J Luoma

References:
- Archiving patches (Was: Current state of 3.1.2)
  - From: Geoff Wing

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