Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!kre From: kre@ucbvax.ARPA (Robert Elz) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: cleaning up the net -- software solutions proposed Message-ID: <9121@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 07:37:06 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9121 Posted: Wed Jul 17 07:37:06 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 07:10:10 EDT References: <2961@nsc.UUCP> <272@ttrdc.UUCP> <563@decuac.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 12 Summary: Length limit is doomed - its attacking the wrong problem Long articles aren't the problem, whatever the newsgroup. Just articles containing trash (short or long ones that consist of N lines of the previous article that you just read, a couple of lines of meaningless comment, and M lines of .signature). I have been tempted from time to time to suggest simply deleting the .signature code, or perhaps changing it to unlink(".signature"); to assist in eliminating that "feature". Something tells me that this solution wouldn't really work either. Robert Elz ucbvax!kre