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- Path: sparky!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!lll-winken!telecom-request
- From: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Administrivia: Article/Subject Headers
- Message-ID: <telecom12.863.1@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 04:26:14 GMT
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
- Lines: 43
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu
- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 863, Message 1 of 10
-
- Lately I've been receiving a lot of items from people who reply to the
- newsgroup rather than send their submission via email. Then there are
- people who send articles via email, but reply to the subject rather
- than construct it correctly.
-
- For example: "Re: TELECOM Digest V12 #850" is <<not>> an acceptable
- title for an article. Neither are blanks where the subject is left
- out entirely. Since I don't have time for anything except a brief
- screening of articles, I will just skip over those that don't have
- subjects from now on.
-
- Likewise I am getting tired of people cross posting to a dozen other
- groups as well as telecom, and a variety of other articles which come
- here totally unedited, rambling on and on, etc.
-
- If there is no subject header, or the subject simply refers to an issue
- of the Digest, it won't get published.
-
- If the article comes to me from 'news@wherever' (meaning someone tried
- to post it to comp.dcom.telecom and it got caught and sent to me in
- multiples), then it won't get published. I am arranging my filtering
- program to take articles like these and dump them unread.
-
- I don't need a hundred plus articles daily to go through and not be
- able to arrange them by subject because the writer did not bother to
- include one.
-
- The one and only way to submit articles here is by addressing them in
- email to 'telecom@eecs.nwu.edu' AND including a valid subject header
- which either matches an earlier one with a 'Re:' in front, or by
- creating a new header entirely.
-
- I've got a couple dozen articles waiting for review now with no
- subject and my solution is to toss them out. This also applies to
- articles where the person simply captured the entire Digest as part of
- their reply, leaving me to yank a couple hundred lines out with my
- editor after reading it all to see what part he was replying to, etc.
-
-
- Thank you.
-
- Patrick Townson
-