Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!cs.mu.oz.au!kre From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: Why is my post being rejected? Message-ID: Date: 18 Jun 91 04:19:57 GMT References: <14JUN91.15182407@nerus.pfc.mit.edu> <1991Jun14.155246.12371@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1991Jun17.190440.26978@zoo.toronto.edu> Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU Organization: Comp Sci, University of Melbourne, Australia Lines: 17 henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >>--> 441 inews: Article rejected: news included more text than new text >Actually, it's a dumb idea that has accomplished almost nothing. No its not - it might not actually be stopping people who want to from quoting lots - but it was never intended to do that. It has just about wiped out those articles that we used to see all the time which consisted of nothing but the entire previous article, quoted, and no response at all (ie: caused by users who have no idea what they're doing). I would guess that it also causes more users to think a bit about how much they are quoting, and edit more severly. kre