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From: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Notesfile vs. USENET (flame)
Message-ID: <848@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 15:38:00 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 17 15:38:00 1984
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Reply-To: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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It seems to me that this whole business of Orphaned Responses from notes
could be fixed (based only on having used notes a long time ago and reading
the long discussions on this over the passed few years) by changing the data
structures slightly.  My understanding is that currently notes creates an
"empty template" for the base note if a response arrives before the original
article.  The Orphaned Response is put in because the subject line is not
stored with the replies.  Yet it is clear to me that there is other
information associated with the response, such as who sent the response.
Clearly, an extra field could be added to the response article's data
structure to hold the subject, while still maintaining a pointer to the
base note for discussion groupings.  Over the net traffic could then get
its subject directly instead of indirectly through the base note structure.

This seems so easy an obvious, that I must be overlooking something.  Please
fill me in.
	Joel