Newsgroups: news.software.b Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: Why is my post being rejected? Message-ID: <1991Jun19.164047.14369@zoo.toronto.edu> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1991 16:40:47 GMT References: <14JUN91.15182407@nerus.pfc.mit.edu> <1991Jun14.155246.12371@ecst.csuchico.edu> <1991Jun17.190440.26978@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology In article kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) 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 dunno, I still see some of those at times. More to the point, if *that* is the objective, there are ways to do it that don't encourage people to devise new quoting conventions. (For example, C News postnews puts a dummy line in the message body and then looks to make sure you have deleted it.) This was the wrong solution. >I would guess that it also causes more users to think a bit about how >much they are quoting, and edit more severly. I doubt it very much. Any consistent hurdle is jumped automatically. People only think about it when they run into it for the first time. -- "We're thinking about upgrading from | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5." | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry