Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site teklabs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekchips!teklabs!stevens From: stevens@teklabs.UUCP (Steven J Silberberg) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Long Articles (This is pretty bogus) Message-ID: <2667@teklabs.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Dec-83 00:11:53 EST Article-I.D.: teklabs.2667 Posted: Sun Dec 11 00:11:53 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Dec-83 02:12:22 EST Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 15 > If such cannot be done in 25 lines, then a 25 line article is > not appropriate to the subject, and will represent only a waste > of the writer's and readers' time. > >Now lets see how this could be SHORTENED without loss of meaning. > >If item won't fit in 25 lines, then forcing it wastes writer's & readers' time. OK, why don't we just be nerds about this: if (lines > 25 ) time(netter) = wasted; -- Steve Silberberg