Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site down.FUN Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!down!north From: north@down.FUN (Stephen C North) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: What to do about all these "quotes" of articles Message-ID: <396@down.FUN> Date: Fri, 21-Dec-84 13:28:40 EST Article-I.D.: down.396 Posted: Fri Dec 21 13:28:40 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 02:28:45 EST References: <1308@eosp1.UUCP> Organization: The Official Fun Hack Machine @ Princeton University Lines: 12 Toby Robison does not go far enough. Quoted articles are a bad idea, period. It's a drag to read through them and they waste lots of connect time and disk space. They should be banished. What do people think the References and Xref headers are for, anyway? Netnews is a database. Including someone else's article as if I have no possible way of finding it or seeing it again is silly, almost as silly as all those """""line eater bug""""" and .signature lines. But who cares, it's only netnews. Stephen C North