Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site opus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!opus!rcd From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Idiots who can quote (WARNING: offensive to imbeciles) Message-ID: <857@opus.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 21:01:08 EDT Article-I.D.: opus.857 Posted: Mon Oct 1 21:01:08 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 04:54:52 EDT References: <270@mhuxt.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO Lines: 16 > I am sick and tired of a**holes who post 80 line articles with interesting > subject lines which consist of 73 lines of a repeat of someone else's > article, 1 line of the a**hole's inspired commentary on same, and 6 lines > of 'cute' .signature file. In case you don't realize it, newer news software (?2.10.2, I think?) automatically includes the entire parent article (which, of course, includes the signature and everything else). These folks are just too damn lazy (and/or stupid) to remove the irrelevant parts. The real dodos are the ones who leave in the (completely useless) line supplied by postnews which says *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Relax...don't worry...have a homebrew.