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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed
Message-ID: <249@persci.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 19-Jul-85 11:33:55 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 19 11:33:55 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jul-85 22:12:56 EDT
References: <2982@nsc.UUCP> <184@almsa-1> <488@qantel.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (Bill Swan)
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In article <488@qantel.UUCP> stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499) writes:
>In article <184@almsa-1> control@almsa-1.UUCP (William Martin) writes:
>>So, instead of arbitrary length restrictions, remove the "F" command
>>from readnews and change postnews' follow-up action to not include the
>>original posting...
>
>Hey!  Wait a Minute!  I use the "F" command a lot, even when I'm only
>going to include one sentence from the original posting (like this one)!

Ditto! Why not (I realize this is more involved) make the user explicitly
define the lines that get included (or kept). One way might be to include 
lines prefixed with some character, say, '<', but when the note is posted
have Pnews/postnews purge any line starting with '<'. If you wanted to
keep the line, reverse it to '>'. (You might end up adding a key to
'reverse' the current line, moving the cursor on to the next line, for
convenience, if this doesn't defeat the intent.)

Just a thought...

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Bill Swan 	{ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill
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