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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Zonker T. Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Overhelpfulness in 2.10.2
Message-ID: <1578@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 13-Oct-84 05:21:58 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 13 05:21:58 1984
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> There's one saying we're going to be seeing a lot on the net in the future.
> It's:
> 
> *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE ***
> 
> I'm not sure why the newest postnews finds this necessary.
A good point-- I've started noticing these things on the net. Perhaps a bit
on the overzealous side???

> A second over-helpfulness is sucking in the entire base article prefixed
> with "> " for a followup.
I've fixed this in my version, and the fixes have gone to poor, overworked,
rick for inclusion in the next postings from him. what I did was set things
up so that by default you didn't get the message but so you could tell
readnews and vnews if you DID want it. I also did the same for replies (did
you notice how you ALWAYS got the message for followups and NEVER for
replies??? Talk about standardization... *grin*)

> The business of tucking a copy of your posting into author.copy is another
> feature I could do without. 
Also fixed, originally by Mark at Fortune, and I've hacked it further. My
version (also at poor, overworked rick's house) doesn't save the message
(following the true unix standard of doing nothing and saying nothing
unless asked) unless you set an environment variable. I haven't figured out
how to deal with YA environment variable due to lack of time, but I'll
probably get frustrated enough one of these days...

chuq (2.10.2 is wonderful... Everyone should have a copy!)
-- 
From the Department of Bistromatics:                   Chuq Von Rospach
{cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui  nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA

How about 'reason for living?'