The only thing I can think of is auto-generating INDEX-ish files
using the "Summary:" line or something, then mangle the names... I
mean there's some cases where 14 characters just won't be useful.
I'm NOT saying to throw out the current scheme, it would be
horrible to make everyone live with 14 character file names, but
perhaps a second set of files or an alternate tree structure on
news.answers that gets generated automatically for people on
generally 'challenged' operating systems.
Perhaps I'm confused, but it seems to me that such a tree structure
already exists -- the *.answers archive hierarchy! The whole point of
assigning archive names in the first place was so that FAQs could be
archived in a hierarchy with unique names (after each component is
truncated to fourteen characters, as documented in the "*.answers
submission guidelines") that aren't dependent on Subject, Summary, or
anything else.
I don't understand what you're suggesting we add, and I don't
understand what it would give us that the *.answers archive hierarchy
doesn't already give us.
Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@security.ov.com
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