Dating postings

[Martin Taylor 920708 15:15]
(Bill Silvert 920708 15:40)

mmt@BEN.DCIEM.DND.CA [Martin Taylor 920708 14:15] responds:

(Bill Silvert, still not dating his postings)

Actually my mailer puts the date on, but the CSG server removes it.
This is being written on 92/7/8 at 15:40 ADT.

I could have replied privately to Bill on this, but there are others in this
group who make the same mistake, so it is as well to send it publicly. It's
probably in Gary's new groupie's posting, too.

The convention in CSG-L is to start the text with your own name followed
by the date in yymmdd format, followed by the time, so that whoever follows
up the mailing can, in the second line of their text, repeat that group.
The two postings can then be linked if back references are attempted
automatically, or can be sought out by an editor if a reader is keeping
an archive of postings on an issue. I happen to be keeping HyperCard stacks
of all mailings, so I am particularly sensitive to the issue.

Martin