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From: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The 50% rule is in--now what?
Message-ID: <2478@diamond.Diamond.BBN.COM>
Date: Sun, 30-Nov-86 20:00:33 EST
Article-I.D.: diamond.2478
Posted: Sun Nov 30 20:00:33 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 30-Nov-86 21:54:48 EST
References: <212@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> <751@chinet.UUCP>
Reply-To: mlandau@Diamond.BBN.COM (Matt Landau)
Organization: BBN Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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Summary: It's fixed, so let's all shut up about it now, okay?

In news.misc (article <223@shuksan.UUCP>), root@shuksan.UUCP writes:
>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 ).

So we can finally all stop talking about this, I'll point out that
the recently posted patches to 2.11 (posted by Rick Adams about 2 weeks
ago) do exactly these two things:  the 50% limit is only enforced on
articles more than LINECNT (default = 24) lines long, and diffs are
treated specially.

Followup to /dev/null, please.
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