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From: dattier@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (David W. Tamkin)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Filler lines
Summary: another way
Message-ID: <1365@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 22 Aug 89 03:52:33 GMT
References: <21376@paris.ics.uci.edu> <30792@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: dattier@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (David W. Tamkin)
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Bill Wisner wrote in <30792@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>:

| But if you really must quote a huge chunk of someone else's article, and
| you decide to change the > characters to something else to fool inews, please,
| at least make sure you don't muck up your References line.

In rn you can set the -F switch to supply a different citation character.
For example, I have '-F"| "' in my RNINIT and the results are apparent above. 
The message-ID's in the references and attribution lines still retain their
angle brackets and I don't have to worry that an editor command to change
the citation character will spoil them.

I have also trimmed down Wisner's article to the part to which I am
responding and resisted quoting his .signature (a common practice that does
nothing but waste bandwidth, except when the .signature is the item under
discussion).

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