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From: mojo@kepler.UUCP (Morris Jones)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b,net.news.sa
Subject: Re: I hate very long articles.
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Date: Tue, 3-Sep-85 14:33:17 EDT
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stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir) writes:
>I think there should be some way to limit the size of news articles, especially
>those in net.sources*.  These newsgroups have had *very* large articles even
>though they come in several parts.  I would rather see many small parts to a
>set of articles than a few very big parts.

I disagree.  The more pieces there are to a posting, the more likely the chance
of losing one or more along the path, therefore the more requests for
repostings, therefore extra unnecessary overhead on the net.

I didn't see you give any reasons for disliking the large articles.

-- 
Mojo
... Morris Jones, MicroPro Product Development
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