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Subject: Re: USENET frowning on graphics in signatures
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Date: Wed, 23-Oct-85 16:41:39 EDT
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>>...  However, rather than stifling creativity
>>entirely, I can see a better way to reduce the garbage-per-article rate:
>>eliminate the "F" command from the news programs!  (For those not familiar
>>with "rn", this submits a followup article and includes the parent article.)
>>If the only way to include quotes from other articles in one's own article
>>would be to type it all in by hand, character by character, I'm sure some
>>people would think twice about including 50 extra lines in every followup!
> 
>This person would appear not to know how to use an editor...
>-- 
>James C. Armstrong, Jnr.	{ihnp4,cbosgd,akgua}!abnji!nyssa

No, that's not the point--the point is that most of us would (I'm assuming)
rather not read articles from those people who do not know how to use the 
editor, or who think it's too much trouble to edit out all the unnecessary 
lines.  My memory fails me right now, but I also seem to remember some times
when the editor would scroll all those quoted lines off the top of the screen,
so that a naive and careless person would forget to edit them out.

I don't think that forcing someone to type in the quotation by hand is a good
idea because it would lead to all sorts of misquotes.  Perhaps some sort of 
informative message, like the one warning you about all the people you're going
to be boring by posting at all, could warn you that nobody wants to read all
that stuff again.

L S Chabot   ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot