Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why can't I include more?
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.161136.10799@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <154@wgate.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 90 16:11:36 GMT

In article <154@wgate.UUCP> jwh@wgate.UUCP (Joe Hughes) writes:
>Is there a feature/bug in inews that limits the number of included lines? ...

This was a misguided attempt to enforce morality in late releases of B News.
The only result has been an explosion of creativity in quoting conventions,
making it much more difficult for smart news readers to parse articles.

Mind you, although this was a poor way of doing it, morality is still
worth maintaining.  Including the whole prior article is lazy and
inconsiderate; it is proper and civilized to prune included text down to
the minimum necessary.
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