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From: warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy)
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Subject: Re: Why is my post being rejected?
Summary: Too much quoting
Keywords: inews rejected article
Message-ID: <1991Jun14.155246.12371@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Date: 14 Jun 91 15:52:46 GMT
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In article <14JUN91.15182407@nerus.pfc.mit.edu> mrl@nerus.pfc.mit.edu writes:

-->	... His news server ... recently rejected a reply to a message, ...
-->	441 inews: Article rejected: news included more text than new text

  I wish more posters enforced this, but somewhere along the line, somebody had
a good idea to help reduce message size -- mainly, make the amount of
"user-added" text be in some ratio to the amount of text the user has quoted
from a followup or whatever (usually, they need more).

  It helps cut down on those silly posts you see where someone has quoted an
*enture* article, no trimming at all, added a few lines of comment, and more
often than not, his signiture has more lines than his message text.

  I'd personally like to see more of this, but it's understandibly hard to
figure out just what actually is `quoted' text in a message, as opposed to the
users.  It's far to rare for me.  )-:
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