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From: mathisen@dali.cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Follow-up problem with Bnews
Message-ID: <2783@dali>
Date: 30 Oct 90 16:31:25 GMT
References: <136@abode.UUCP>
Organization: Montana State University, Dept. of Computer Science, Bozeman MT 59717
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In article <136@abode.UUCP> eric@abode.wciu.edu (Eric C. Bennett) writes:
>
>Sometimes when I post Follow-ups to articles under Bnews I get this message:
>inews: Article rejected: eric included more text that new text
>
>What I believe this means (from what it says) is that I must delete part of
>a message to make room for a follow-up post to it. In other words, the 



What it means is that inews is trying to keep you from re-posting a
complete message, with just a couple of lines of text as followup...  Trim
the quoted article down to just the absolute essentials to maintain context,
add your succinct comments to the end...  I think the requirement is
that included text has to be less than 50% of the article size.

It doesn't make a lot of sense to send a copy of a whole article along 
with a couple of lines of commentary, when it's relatively easy to use
the References header to retrieve the original article... (I realize
that there are some problems with ordering of the articles, but by and
large it works).