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From: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed
Message-ID: <1291@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 10:03:16 EDT
Article-I.D.: uwmacc.1291
Posted: Wed Jul 17 10:03:16 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 19-Jul-85 02:06:36 EDT
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Reply-To: bllklly@uwmacc.UUCP (Bill Kelly)
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Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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>    ...all messages will be restricted at
>    the inews level to 100 lines.
>    Articles brought in from off-site can be either
>    truncated silently or (preferred) rejected and returned to the sender
>    so that they can re-edit it to an appropriate size.

So would you really prefer to have received 378 copies of your 104 line
article from the sites running your proposed new software?  I don't think
you can notify off-site senders without swamping them (unless you could be
guaranteed that your nearest neighbors would do it).  Also, unless this
is a net-wide policy, I doubt this would work.  The average poster wouldn't
(shouldn't?) care what the restrictions imposed by individual site
administrators are.
-- 
Bill     {allegra, ihnp4, seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!bllklly
Kelly    UW-Madison, 1210 West Dayton St., Madison WI 53706

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