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From: bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: A question about rn's quirk...
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Date: 24 Feb 88 19:23:54 GMT
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In article <3061@dasys1.UUCP> pepper@dasys1.UUCP (Angelique Wahlstedt) writes:
>A few times when I tried to post a follow-up article, I'd get this
>message "article shorter than text", and my article'd be stashed away
>in the "dead.article" file instead.  (By the way, I'm using "rn".)

You included more text from the article to which you were posting a
followup, than you contributed original material to the discussion.

This feature is intended to reduce the volume flowing around the net
that was caused by people blindly including entire articles without
editing to cite only those parts that were necessary to understanding
of their own little part of the discussion.
-=-
 Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science
 The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277
 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob