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From: night@pawl6.pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: High Volume Calls For New Approach
Keywords: Signatures;long quotes
Message-ID: <2145@imagine.PAWL.RPI.EDU>
Date: 19 Dec 88 18:20:09 GMT
References: <26469@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <952@dlhpedg.co.uk>
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Reply-To: night@pawl6.pawl.rpi.edu (Trip Martin)
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In article <952@dlhpedg.co.uk> cl@datlog.co.uk (Charles Lambert),
and Patrick Townson (ptownson@bu-cs.BU.EDU, article 26469@bu-cs.BU.EDU):
Charles Lambert takes up Patrick Townson's point about included quotes in
news articles and suggests that news administrators disable this feature.

How about letting the news software provide the solution, since it's part
of the problem.  Since the references are already included with articles, 
why not give news readers an option to pull up the reference articles?

The only problem I would see with this is some sites have very short expire 
times, which would make this feature useless.
--
Trip Martin
night@pawl.rpi.edu
night@paraguay.acm.rpi.edu