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From: flee@dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
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Subject: Re: Why can't I include more?
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Date: 12 Oct 90 18:58:39 GMT
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>but at least it makes people realize that they're potentially wasting
>resources...

But it doesn't.
	Article rejected: included more text than new text
is hardly an enlightening error message.  Nowhere does it say anything
about wasting resources.

"included more text than new text".  What does that mean?  It's
just another threatening error message from another hostile computer
program.  Or else it's another dumb error message from another dumb
program that won't do what I tell it.

Adding that restriction didn't really change news noticeably.  Well,
it got rid of pun-chains, but it created "inews fodder".
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Felix Lee	flee@cs.psu.edu