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From: levine@ics.uci.edu (David Levine)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Filler lines
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Date: 21 Aug 89 16:36:32 GMT
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Some mailers refuse to post an followup article that has fewer
new lines that cited lines.  Some netters say that adding
filler lines to fake it is "bad", and that a better way is
to change to > citation character to something that doesn't
get counted as an included line.

Why is adding filler lines so "bad"?
A few suggestions I've thought of/heard, which don't convince me:
1) waste bits,
2) not as easy to figure out how many filler lines are needed,
3) make printing difficult.
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David L. Levine         levine@ics.uci.edu   or   uci-ics!levine
Dept. of ICS; University of California, Irvine; Irvine, CA 92717