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From: osmigo1@ut-ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The 50% rule is in--now what?
Message-ID: <4283@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Nov-86 11:18:27 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 11 11:18:27 1986
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Reply-To: osmigo1@ngp.UUCP (Ron Morgan)
Organization: Speech Communication UT Austin
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I (and I suspect many others) have often been guilty of "padding" text, just
to get my post up. Not necessarily padding with empty lines or garbage, but
just blabbering endlessly to fill up space. Here are a few ideas that might
be worth thinking about:

1. Maybe the 50% could go into effect ONLY if the included text exceeded 24
   lines (or one screenful).

2. How about a FLAT LIMIT on how much can be included in ANY case? You can
   easily transfer the gist of a post in less than a screenful.

3. How about a limit on the number of "levels" of included text? I normally
   pounce on the "n" key when I see a message starting off with 5 >'s....

Ron Morgan

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