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From: flaps@dgp.toronto.edu (Alan J Rosenthal)
Subject: Re: A question about rn's quirk...
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Organization: University of Toronto
References: <3061@dasys1.UUCP> <7147@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <158@bdt.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 88 22:54:15 EST


In article <158@bdt.UUCP> david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer) writes:
:->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.

Well, I think the solution to this is to advise people of how to evade this
restriction properly.  Sometimes it is reasonable to evade it, like in this
posting.

ajr
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If you had eternal life, would you be able to say all the integers?