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From: james@reality1.UUCP (james)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The 50% rule is in--now what?
Message-ID: <80@reality1.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Nov-86 16:02:56 EST
Article-I.D.: reality1.80
Posted: Wed Nov 19 16:02:56 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 19-Nov-86 22:20:21 EST
References: <751@chinet.UUCP> <212@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> <1333@PUCC.BITNET> <641@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
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Summary: Helpful attitudes...

In article <641@comp.lancs.ac.uk>, stephen@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Stephen J. Muir):
> Well, I'm going to delete that code when I install 2.11, so there.  I suspect
> I won't be alone.  We have enough trouble with certain sites changing message
> IDs and re-injecting news articles without worrying about piffling things like
> this.

Perhaps then it is time to have rnews check for include limitations when an
article is received from another site.  That was even if comp.lancs.ac.uk
posts messages 95% included text, the backbones won't spend their money
transporting it around the world.  I can hear screams of censorship already,
but unless Mr. Muir is willing to pay the phone bills to carry messages with
large quantities of included text, I doubt the backbones will have much choice.

> In any case, I shall also be installing FASCIST, so any user who insists on
> including a load of junk will be disauthorised (is that the right word?).

I have used FASCIST before just to make sure that people read netiquette before
posting their first message.  They initially may post to nothing: if they want
to post, they must come to me and show that they understand what is and is
not acceptable.
-- 
James R. Van Artsdalen    ...!ut-ngp!utastro!osi3b2!james    "Live Free or Die"