Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!indri!ames!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!fadden From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: posting news (was Re: A2-central...AUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!) Summary: no, no, no. Message-ID: <16504@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 23 Aug 89 17:43:28 GMT References: <3135@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Andy McFadden) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 18 In article <3135@cbnewsm.ATT.COM> tp@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (thomas.a.pierce) writes: [ all kinds of stuff] > Y'know what? I just tried posting this article (all above this line) and >it was 'rejected by inews... included more text then new text'!! >I took all of the '>'s uot of empty lines, and stuck in a few extra blanks and >here we go..... inews is looking at the '>' thingys at the start of each line. If you change them to a different character, you won't get that message. Most editors have a global replace option (try 1,$ s/>/#/g in vi). Adding extra text to make it happy just makes Usenet strain a little harder... >| Tom Pierce | These opinions don't represent anyone at AT&T (but me!)| -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ...!ucbvax!cory!fadden