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From: rick@tmiuv0.uucp
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,news.software.b
Subject: Re: The famous inews error
Message-ID: <2193@tmiuv0.uucp>
Date: 7 Jun 90 14:32:05 GMT
References: <1059@fiver.UUCP>
Organization: Technology Marketing Inc., Irvine, CA
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In article <1059@fiver.UUCP>, palowoda@fiver.UUCP (Bob Palowoda) writes:
>   Ok I give in.  What causes the error message from 'inews'
> 
>   inews: Article rejected: palowoda included more text than new text
>   Article appended to /usr/palowoda/dead.article
> 
>  ---Bob
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inews wants you to include more original text than regurgitated text.  It's
trying to police you by telling you that the intent of including text from
a previous article is to jog people's memories about that article, not merely
to repost the whole thing with a few added comments.  This aspect of inews'
behaviour was created to try to keep the bandwidth of the net down.

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