From: Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)
Date: Thu Sep 17 1998 - 02:24:29 CDT
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@prodigy.com> writes:
> I have been trying to stay out of this whole named article thing, but
> this last post is one too many. It is a relatively clever solution, well
> explained, carefully thought out, and makes it clear that any robust
> implementation is going to be complex beyond any benefit I can see from
> having this feature.
I'm afraid this is pretty much my opinion of permanent IDs as well, which
is why I'd like to see them clearly separated from article names (which
this proposal doesn't do).
Article names are a considerably easier problem to solve, since you can do
this by taking on another overview-like mechanism (or even by overloading
.overview, but that's not very efficient), and you don't have to worry
about uniqueness.
-- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>