Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!rlw From: rlw@wxlvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: UNIX: INHUMAN FACTORS Message-ID: <825@ittvax.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Jul-83 12:25:51 EDT Article-I.D.: ittvax.825 Posted: Tue Jul 5 12:25:51 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jul-83 02:13:43 EDT Lines: 19 In attempting to figure out "inews", I tried to post an item to a local group with a text "test". ...and got a message roughly of the following sort: inews:Surely you don't want to post THAT!. The structure of the message implies a value judgement on the content rather than a comment on my use of the command. After several tries and suitable frustration, a local mavin discovered that it was the length of the message that was the source of the objection. Apparently -- and undocumentedly -- inews rejects any message under 6 characters long. I have heard that "UNIX is a system widely praised by large numbers of people who have never used it." Damn sure! --Dick Wexelblat (...decvax!ittvac!wxlvax!rlw)