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From: beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy)
Newsgroups: net.origins
Subject: Quantity of Quotes
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Date: Thu, 1-Aug-85 18:15:44 EDT
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From: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor), Message-ID: <616@gitpyr.UUCP>:
>Ditto!  I've been ignoring the followups to the 'scientific' case series for
>this reason exactly!  It's not that i'm not interested, it's simply that i
>often have to wade through 3 or 4 pages of quoted material.

It's true that far too much of those particular articles gets quoted (who
needs to see those (completely irrelevant) headers alla time?).  However,

>the original article is always available for reference if needed.

is just not true.  I don't know how much disk space *you* have, but our
net.news gets expunged weekly.  Many of the replies don't come in for
more than a week after the original is posted, and *I* sure don't save
every article that comes along.  Although I often just skim it, I like
a fair amount of context, even when I'm home reading at 1200 baud.  And
our group spends a helluva lot time arguing about what exactly the other
person said.  Who knows if they said it or not if it isn't quoted and
it's more than a week old?

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--JB       (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth)

                   All we learn from history is that
                     we learn nothing from history.