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From: karl@haddock.UUCP (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The 50% rule is in--now what?
Message-ID: <162@haddock.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 22:26:00 EST
Article-I.D.: haddock.162
Posted: Tue Nov 11 22:26:00 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Nov-86 21:27:50 EST
References: <212@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: karl@haddock.UUCP (Karl Heuer)
Organization: Interactive Systems, Boston
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In article <212@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> weemba@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>OK everybody, we've all seen the growing rash of people padding their
>postings with 50% rule killers.  I hate line-eaters, I hate **REPLACE
>THIS LINE WITH YOUR IDIOTISMS**, and I hate most big signatures (Bob
>Averack's is the major exception), but I positively cannot stand these
>deadwood 50% rule killers.

Ditto to all of the above.  We don't seem to have the 50% rule here, but it
seems to me that there's no excuse for adding the "deadwood".  If a user's
news-posting program thinks he has overquoted, and he disagrees, surely it's
not difficult to disguise quotes with something like "1,$s/^>/|/"?  Certainly
that's less irritating than adding twenty copies of "inews wants more lines"!

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
(The above editor command is not intended to substitute for real editing;
e.g. one should (almost) always delete the respondee's .signature first.)