Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!tale From: tale@cs.rpi.edu (Dave Lawrence) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: My turn to ask questions. Message-ID: <2578D24A.5895@rpi.edu> Date: 3 Dec 89 07:59:05 GMT References: <1380@lakesys.lakesys.com> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY Lines: 37 In article emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: You'll have to edit it down of course to trim out unnecessary stuff, like the original poster's .signature, unimportant bits of the original message, etc. so that inews won't complain about too much quoted text. Actually, inews complaining is not one of the most important reasons for doing this; in fact, inews was designed to complain about it because of the other reasons. The reason that blankets them all is, "it pisses people off." Lots of them. If you want to generate some hate mail, just send out a message that quotes the entirety of a 50 lines article, and at the bottom say, "Me too." Make sure all that follows is a 18 line .signature; people love that, really. If you are going to keep it within the strongly suggested four line limit, make sure all it has besides your address is a couple of rows of '@' characters. And if you want to say more than just "Me too," either just resist or say something so stupid and wrong that people can't hope but to hate you wrong. Oh, don't get upset about being flamed to a crisp by people who have obviously been around longer and know better than you; you will probably be able to find one or two people who will leap to your defense no matter how idiotic your article was. [ Okay, okay. So I'll never be Emily Postnews. ] Seriously, though, inews does it as a simple attempt to prevent novice posters from wasting net.resources through careless editing of follow-up postings. It wastes people's time and organisations' money. And inews complaining can be a whole lot gentler on you than the rest of the net. Dave -- (setq mail '("tale@cs.rpi.edu" "tale@ai.mit.edu" "tale@rpitsmts.bitnet"))