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From: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul D. Crowley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,news.software.b
Subject: Re: The famous inews error
Message-ID: <4601@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 8 Jun 90 18:31:29 GMT
References: <1059@fiver.UUCP> <2193@tmiuv0.uucp>
Reply-To: aipdc@castle.ed.ac.uk (Paul D. Crowley)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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rick@tmiuv0.uucp sez in <2193@tmiuv0.uucp>
|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

|This aspect of inews'
|behaviour was created to try to keep the bandwidth of the net down.
|
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2 / [- O] Rick Stevens (All opinions are mine. Everyone ignores them anyway.) \
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4|    V   | uunet!zardoz!tmiuv0!rick             (<-- Work (ugh!))             |
5|--------+ uunet!zardoz!xyclone!sysop           (<-- Home Unix (better!))     |
6|  uunet!perigrine!ccicpg!conexch!amoeba2!rps2  (<-- Home Amiga (Best!!)      |
7 \ 75006.1355@compuserve.com (CIS: 75006,1355)  (<-- CI$)                    /
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9"I was Caesarean born.  When I leave the house, I use the window."
A                                         - Steven Wright

As was the system to restrict .sigs to four lines...

I sometimes wish this program automatically chopped .sigs from included
text unless specifically  told to do otherwise, because it peeves me
when people quote them with no intention of commenting on them.
-- 
\/ o\ Paul Crowley aipdc@uk.ac.ed.castle
/\__/ "Trust me, I know what I'm doing" - Sledge Hammer