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From: weemba@brahms (Matthew P Wiener)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: The 50% rule is in--now what?
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Date: Fri, 7-Nov-86 23:36:43 EST
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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.

Am I alone here?

I propose that it be lowered to 40% new material, applied to longer
postings only, and that the bounce message be more to the point, with
strong encouragement to edit/paraphrase the original better.

If the major point was to get rid of running puns, then just say so and
ban them directly.  (They've mostly died out, thank Gene Spafford.)

ucbvax!brahms!weemba	Matthew P Wiener/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720