Path: utzoo!utstat!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!cica!iuvax!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Why can't I include more? Message-ID: <1990Oct12.185620.19539@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 12 Oct 90 18:56:20 GMT References: <1990Oct11.161136.10799@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 24 In article flee@dictionopolis.cs.psu.edu (Felix Lee) writes: >Quoted text is greatly overused. The Subject and maybe a line or two >of context are usually enough. If a person reading an article wants Agreed. But I still remember the time I replied to an article of about 100 lines. I very carefully trimmed the included material down to 4 lines which just gave the context. Then I added my carefully thought out and complete response. It took only one line. The damn thing was bounced. This made no sense at all. Of course what I did was try again, after adding several lines of meaningless fluff to my response just to circumvent such stupidity. There should at least be a reasonable sanity test. If the number of lines included is less than say 12 (half a typical screen) it should be allowed even if the response is only 1 line. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940