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From: kre@munnari.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: inews stupidity
Message-ID: <1675@munnari.oz>
Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 10:57:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: munnari.1675
Posted: Fri Jun  5 10:57:47 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jun-87 05:37:49 EDT
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Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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In article <1852@isis.UUCP>, aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt) writes:
| I agree the new/old ratio of text is not the best approach to prevent
| over-inclusion of old articles.

A "best" method is most likely never going to appear.

| For any method that we could
| think of people would think of simple work arounds:

That's not a bug, its a feature.  The pity is that most people
think of the most obvious, and stupid, workaround .. adding
junk lines.

The right way to avoid the limit is to change the '>' to some
other character (like '|' or '<' or '[' -- whatever your personality
dictates).

Doing that means that you have at least deliberately decided that
the amount of text quoted is the amount that you have wanted to
quote, there's been at least some thought.  That's the aim, to
make people think.  There's no point being overly intrusive, there's
absolutely nothing that can be done that can't be defeated.

kre