Acbosgd.186 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:mhtsa!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Thu Dec 10 10:30:25 1981 one character messages I have seen a number of one character followups and replies, and have so far chalked them up to somebody not knowing what they were doing. Noise on the line is, of course, a possibility. It would certainly be a useful feature if the followup command (or inews itself) would check to make sure the message contains at least K printing characters (K might be 3, for example) and if not, print a message such as you have just asked to post an article to newsgroup %s containing the text: ... Do you really want to post this?