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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
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Subject: Re: followup articles (# of lines check)
Message-ID: <1365@epimass.EPI.COM>
Date: Sun, 26-Jul-87 02:52:39 EDT
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Posted: Sun Jul 26 02:52:39 1987
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In article <7690@mimsy.UUCP> mangoe@mimsy.UUCP (Charley Wingate) writes:
[ re the inews "too much quoting" check: ]
>The problem is, people are sloppier as a result.  People seem to be deadset
>on thwarting that code anyway, and altogether too many people thwart it by
>making their articles *longer*.  What good is this doing?

It's doing quite a bit of good.  You don't see nearly as many 50-line
quotes followed by two-line comments as you used to.  You don't see
50-line quotes followed by * REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *
either.  I now make it a habit to edit the quotations more than I
used to; so do most people.  When I want to cheat the rule, I change
the > into a different character.  There is NEVER any reason to add
"inews filler".


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