Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!unisoft!gethen!bdt!david From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: A question about rn's quirk... Message-ID: <158@bdt.UUCP> Date: 2 Mar 88 01:11:32 GMT References: <3061@dasys1.UUCP> <7147@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Reply-To: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland, CA Lines: 12 In article <7147@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> bob@allosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) writes: >You included more text from the article to which you were posting a >followup, than you contributed original material to the discussion. Sometimes I've seen this backfire. The poster simply adds several lines of fluff to make sure he/she is posting more material than the original posting. -- David Beckemeyer | "To understand ranch lingo all yuh Beckemeyer Development Tools | have to do is to know in advance what 478 Santa Clara Ave, Oakland, CA 94610 | the other feller means an' then pay UUCP: ...!ihnp4!hoptoad!bdt!david | no attention to what he says"