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From: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: US PC programmers still live in a 7-bit world!
Message-ID: <133@dcs.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jul 88 12:45:37 GMT
References: <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se> <699@omen.UUCP> <1288@odyssee.UUCP>
Reply-To: wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul)
Organization: DCS, Dallas, Texas
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In article <1288@odyssee.UUCP> pinard@odyssee.UUCP (Francois Pinard) writes:
 >(postnews requires me
 >to give more new text,
 >even if useless to do
 >so...)

I am posting this because Francois is not the only one who needs to be
reminded of this.

Actually, if you read the stuff in news.announce.newusers, you are not supposed
to give more new text, but if your reply must be shorter than the quoted text
(i.e. if you have to include more quoted text than the length of your own 
reply), you should "hide" the old text (i.e. fool postnews) by either changing
the quote character from '>' to something else, or else, putting a space in 
front of each quote character as I have done above.

The purpose of the "more new text than included quote" is to REDUCE VOLUME;
to add garbage new text has exactly the opposite effect. Use common sense,
folks!
-- 
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