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From: mjc@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA (Monica Cellio)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Creation of net.sources.d, and mods to software.
Message-ID: <360@cmu-cs-cad.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 3-Aug-85 20:06:59 EDT
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Posted: Sat Aug  3 20:06:59 1985
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From: nsc!amdcad!phil@seismo (Phil Ngai)
>This is a simplistic solution but one approach to the problem of followups
>and requests for reposts to net.sources is to cause rnews to junk any
>article in net.sources shorter than 50 lines excluding headers.

I can see it now.  Within hours of the installation of this code, some turkey
would undoubtedly post a message consisting of "I need source for hack"
repeated on 50 lines.  We've already got enough garbage on the net; I think
any policy enforcing a minimum length is going to lose.

							-Dragon
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