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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 14:06:56 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 14:06:56 1985
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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)!

Me, too -- I just used it now. The point is that you can do what you
need to do when you *really* want and need to include stuff from the
original article by first doing an "s" save to another file, then
"reading" that file into your editor buffer, and extracting what you
need. That is, you can still do just what "F" now does, but it is harder
and more tedious. This will help discourage people from doing it.

It's not something I'm pushing or terribly enthused about, though --
just a possible idea for decreasing excessive quotation.

Regards,
Will Martin

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