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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
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Organization: NBI,Inc, Boulder CO
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>     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 ***

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