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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Why can't I include more?
Keywords: postnews inews
Message-ID: <497@newave.UUCP>
Date: 20 Oct 90 21:24:30 GMT
References: <154@wgate.UUCP>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
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Organization: NeWave Communications Ltd, Eden Prairie, MN
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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?
> When I tried to post the following article using postnews:

No bug, it is a feature.  This is to prevent people from reposting an 
artical to the entire net when a well chosen quote would have been just
as effective.

> I found a way around the problem be replacing the > with -, but I don't like
> having to do this.  Any comments from the experts?

Even though you can get around the "feature", you are not being network
polite.  You could have quoted a few lines in your posting rather than
the 20 or 30 that you chose to include.  Anyone that would probably be
able to reply to your posting would have most likely known all of the
details that you enclosed anyway.

-john-

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