Subject: X1:8/0031 GEN, ADM: Subject Codes
X::>In order to be appear in the digest, messages must contain one or more
::>codes (listed below) embedded in the Subject line, seperated from the
[...deletia...]
X::>_____RULESET______ ______ERA_______ ________GENERAL________ ____DESIGN
::>SIGS____
::>CT Classic Trav IMP 3rd Imperium ANN Announcements VDES Vehicle
::>Design
::>MT MegaTraveller REB Rebellion Releases, Errata WDES Weapon De
::>HG High Guard TNE The New Era FLAME Flame/Hate Tirade CDES Char Desi
::>NE New Era Rules ____FICTION____ ADM Administrivia WDES World Des
::>TCS Trillion FICT Stories GEN General, non- CAT Computer
::> Credit Squadron AHIS Alternate specific stuff
::>FFS Fire Fusion & Histories
::> Steel GM Scenarios
Oops! Look in the DESIGN SIGS column (also, try to keep to 72 or
less...). You are using the same code for two different "lists" -
WDES for both weapons and worlds. I'd recommend dropping the DES
from all of the DESIGN SIGS entries, and go with VEH for Vehicle
Design, WEAP for Weapons Design, CHAR or N/PC for Character
Design, WRLD for World Design, and the current CAT for Computer
stuff. As far as using them in both TML and XTML, I think this is
a good idea, and should eventually allow the remerging of the
lists. At least initially, it might also not be a bad idea to
treat messages that come through with no code at all as though
they had GEN. A really sophisticated system would be able to
accommodate a reference to another message, in several formats
(like the one I use), and be able to automatically prepend the
appropriate subject codes. Don't try to get into this, though,
unless you have LOTS of time on your hands.
Question: How flexible are we on this? Your example shows
prepending, but your text specifies only "embedded". Would a
format such as "1:8/25 [FFS, NE]: How do I design a foobar" be
acceptable? What about "1:8/25: GEN: Converting Quuxes from
GREPS"? Or "Bazzleberries stink! \FLAME\"? All of these meet the
qualification of embeddedness with separation from the rest by
non-alphanumerics, but they're all quite different. Certainly, a
program that uses regular expression parsing (a la *ix grep) could
handle any or all of the above, but I have no idea of what you're
using at e.u.c. Thus, the question...
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Jeff Zeitlin [email removed]
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