Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Why is my post being rejected? Message-ID: <1991Jun17.190440.26978@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 19:04:40 GMT References: <14JUN91.15182407@nerus.pfc.mit.edu> <1991Jun14.155246.12371@ecst.csuchico.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article <1991Jun14.155246.12371@ecst.csuchico.edu> warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy) writes: >--> 441 inews: Article rejected: news included more text than new text > > I wish more posters enforced this... Actually, it's a dumb idea that has accomplished almost nothing. The main result has been increased creativity in quoting schemes for included text, which is actually counterproductive because it makes automated analysis of news harder. Improving the new:quoted ratio would be good, but this was not the way to do it. Note that John's own software is using a quoting convention that defeats the included