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From: karsh@geowhiz.UUCP (Bruce Karsh)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: Overhelpfulness in 2.10.2
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Date: Sat, 13-Oct-84 20:44:44 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 13 20:44:44 1984
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> 
> A second over-helpfulness is sucking in the entire base article prefixed
> with "> " for a followup. 

  I vote that this feature be retained.  It helps keep replies in
  context.  I think that users should be aware that they don't have
  to keep the entire "> " prefixed article in their follow ups.
  It is sufficient just to keep enough lines that it is clear what
  they are following up.

> 
> The business of tucking a copy of your posting into author.copy is another
> feature I could do without.

  I vote that this feature be retained.  If you don't like it, set the
environment variable NEWSARCHIVE to /dev/null.  I don't see why it is
necessary to complain about features that are so easily disabled.

  I keep all of my postings in author-copy.

                 Bruce Karsh