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From: tneff@bfmny0.UUCP (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Filler lines
Message-ID: <14574@bfmny0.UUCP>
Date: 21 Aug 89 23:51:51 GMT
References: <21376@paris.ics.uci.edu> <2204@uw-entropy.ms.washington.edu>
Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.UU.NET (Tom Neff)
Organization: ^
Lines: 13

Sometimes the person you're following up to can't seem to say ANYTHING
in less than 25 lines (logorrhea) -- if you're pithier, inews can
penalize you.  When this happens, chop the daylights out of the quoted
material, while trying to preserve the meaning.  Or [paraphrase].  Don't
add extra stuff just to make room, unless it's only one or two blank
lines to satify the silly filter.

And don't quote e-n-t-i-r-e articles including signature and
everything.  That's wasteful.  Just quote the text you're responding to.
... surrounded with dots ...
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