Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!ukma!gatech!purdue!spaf@cs.purdue.EDU From: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU (Gene Spafford) Newsgroups: news.announce.newusers Subject: Changes to Rules for posting to Usenet Message-ID: <2823@arthur.cs.purdue.edu> Date: 1 Jan 88 21:03:59 GMT Expires: 10 Feb 88 21:03:58 GMT Sender: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Organization: Dept. of Computer Sciences, Purdue Univ. Lines: 33 Approved: spaf@cs.purdue.EDU Supersedes: <121@uther.cs.purdue.edu> This posting contains a listing of differences between the version of the article (referenced in the "Subject:" line) just posted to this group, and the version posted a few weeks ago. New users may ignore this posting -- it is intended to enable experienced users to track changes to the regularly posted Usenet documents. *** old/rules.n Fri Jan 1 15:39:33 1988 --- src/rules.n Thu Dec 10 17:22:31 1987 *************** *** 5,7 **** Original-from: mark@cbosgd.att.com (Mark Horton) ! [Most recent change: 29 November 1987 by spaf@purdue.edu (Gene Spafford)] --- 5,7 ---- Original-from: mark@cbosgd.att.com (Mark Horton) ! [Most recent change: 10 December 1987 by chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek)] *************** *** 123 **** --- 123,131 ---- incorrect version so the sooner you cancel something, the better. + + If the news system rejects a followup due to "more quoted lines than + new text," please do not use "filler" lines to make up for this. + Instead, if after careful editing, you have more to quote than to + write, change the citation character. For example, in the display + editor vi, you could use the incantation: + :%s/^>/