Acbosgd.1958
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Sun Jan 17 12:11:57 1982
Re: Truncated Articles
What's probably happening is that people are stumbling across the "f"
command and following up when they didn't want to.  Eventually they
try hitting ^D, which posts the message.  If they were to hit DEL instead
it would be aborted.

My suggestion was that any message with fewer than K printing characters
(K probably set to 2 or 3) would be refused, or at least the sender would
be asked if s/he really wants to post that.  The distinctive string is
another reasonable idea.  A third might be a more verbose message printed
by the followup and reply commands, telling the user what he's doing
and to hit DEL to abort.

	Mark