Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: posting news (was Re: A2-central...AUGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!) Message-ID: <8908271512.aa11769@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 27 Aug 89 20:04:15 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 >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'!! > >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... I'd MUCH prefer you all let inews "do its thing" and instead purge MOST of the redundant lines. It's VERY annoying to have to wade through a (usually long) message that I've already read looking for whatever's new (often I give up and dump the whole thing). While it does help to repeat enough of the message being replied to for the reader to be able to recall what the thread is all about, it's rarely necessary to reprise the whole thing. I think inews had it right in the first place. Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity! -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)