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From: john@frog.UUCP (John Woods, Software)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: inews stupidity
Message-ID: <1466@frog.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 16:54:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: frog.1466
Posted: Wed Jun 10 16:54:00 1987
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Organization: Superfrog Heaven [ CRDS, Framingham MA ]
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Summary: other workarounds

> | I agree the new/old ratio of text is not the best approach to prevent
> | over-inclusion of old articles....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).
> 
Well, the workaround that I found was to edit inews to announce that such
a message is in poor taste, instead of refusing it outright.  But then I've
always prefered the gentle-reminder approach to the bludgeon...

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