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From: paul@heino.ibh.rwth-aachen.de (Paul Foerster)
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Subject: Talk: Should IDs be put at the end?
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 05:19:19 -0500
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In article <34vca9$fuc@gagme.wwa.com> clh226@vaxa.strath.ac.uk (Jason Irwin) writes:
>boba@wwa.com (Bob Allison) writes:
>>    I would rather see a post with an ID than without.  It helps to know 
>> if it's a request, pic, talk, etc.  But they are in your face at the 
>> beginning of the line.
>>    How about if we put them at the end (except on long subject linss)?  
>> Maybe in (), or not.  It would be there, but be out of the way.  This 
>> makes sense if most readers don't always need to look at it.  What do you 
>> think?

>I quite like them.  It lets me do a quick scan of the post list and decide what
>I want to see, instead of having to wade through the whole lot.

>I wish some other newsgroups adopted this approach.

... i'd like to utter something too. I'd like to see IDs which are of fixed 
width and in front of the subject. This makes the IDs being display one below 
the other in a fixed column and thus makes it even able to be processed by a 
machine D (<-blind smily). I mean that if the IDs are tied to the first column 
scanning becomes very easy because you just have to scan downward. But if the 
ID appears to be located at the end of the line then you _ADDITIONALLY_ have 
to scan each line to the end which would only make sense if the lines were all 
of the same length. Imho.

>Jazz
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