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From: roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: The Scientific Case For Posting Followups: (Part 6.022e23)
Message-ID: <338@phri.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 10:36:49 EDT
Article-I.D.: phri.338
Posted: Mon Jul 22 10:36:49 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jul-85 03:23:39 EDT
References: <404@iham1.UUCP> <391@kontron.UUCP>
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	Jesus H.F.C., when are you people going to learn that you don't
have to quote an *entire* article to respond to it!  The article I am
following up to, <391@kontron.UUCP> consisted of the entire text of
another article, <404@iham1.UUCP> (all 118 lines of it) followed by 9
lines of commentary.  You know something?  By the time I got to the new
stuff, I was so PO'd that I didn't even read it.

	Just because postnews (or whatever) starts you off with the
whole text of the original article, doesn't mean you have to keep it.
Hack away at it with an editor until you get down to just what it is you
want to talk about.  Usually this is just one or two lines, maybe a
whole paragraph, but not the whole friggin article!.  If I really want
to see more, I can go look up the original article (what do you think
the References: line is for?)
-- 
allegra!phri!roy (Roy Smith)
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute