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From: gordon@sage.UUCP
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Subject: Re: >'s and disinformation
Message-ID: <287@sage.cs.reading.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 04:23:54 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 25 04:23:54 1987
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Reply-To: gordon@sage.UUCP (Simon Gordon)
Organization: Comp. Sci. Dept., Reading Univ. UK.
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In article <2313@felix.UUCP> preston@felix.UUCP (Preston L. Bannister) writes:
>>Yes, including too much quoted text is bad, wasteful, distracting, etc.  On

Just as annoying, is the insistance of many people to have those massive silly
tails on the end of all there articles. A simple where you are message (only
info not added to the top anyway) is all that is required, and then only if
you want direct response (ie not via news)