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

[Timothy J Luoma <luomat+zsh+users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Author:        mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Geoff Wing)
	Original-Date: 9 Oct 1997 05:53:32 GMT
	Message-ID:    <slrn63osas.sb0.mason@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> 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.

True enough.

So I'd only archive the posts which had the subject which began with

PATCH:

so

Re: PATCH

wouldn't be a problem.

However, those who use Novell Groupwise who have decided to change the  
standard and now use:

PATCH -reply

would break it.

TjL