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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