Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!sri-unix!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!shuksan!root From: root@shuksan.UUCP (Operator ) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: The 50rule is in--now what? Message-ID: <223@shuksan.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 10:30:38 EST Article-I.D.: shuksan.223 Posted: Tue Nov 25 10:30:38 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Nov-86 19:25:46 EST References: <212@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> <751@chinet.UUCP> <4283@ut-ngp.UUCP> <3943@jhunix.UUCP> <820@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP> Organization: Boeing Mountain Network, Seattle WA Lines: 34 > > The 50% rule is there, it seems to me, to catch the careless, not the > malicious. If it's going to take as much energy to beat inews as it > would to edit the article, I think most users would opt for editing. > We have a *lot* of accounts on sphinx (over 2500), and if people were > inclined to entertain themselves by playing games with inews we'd be > seeing some evidence of it. > > I think, though, that the front ends to inews should also check > included lines so that the user will know that there's a problem before > the text is passed off to inews. > -- > Melinda Shore ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor > University of Chicago Computation Center XASSHOR@UCHIMVS1.Bitnet What is a rational person doing on the net?? (No foaming at the mouth, no nasty four letter comments - what is this comming to??). I agree. I would like to see the 50% rule waived for less than 20 lines. I also think there needs to be an override for the case mentioned by Brian Reid ( diff files with the ">" in the lines ). Mikey (yes "he likes it!") My job is so secret even I don't know what I'm doing =============================================================================== email: real person: Life: ==> ssc-vax!shuksan!mikey (206) 251-4638 [work] Mike Fields (alt) ssc-vax!fields (206) 821-3492 [home] 12022 N.E. 138th Pl. Kirkland, Wa. 98034 ===============================================================================