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From: sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: USENET frowning ("long quotes")
Message-ID: <370@mecc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 11:07:04 EST
Article-I.D.: mecc.370
Posted: Wed Oct 30 11:07:04 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 01:57:24 EST
References: <3220@ut-sally.UUCP> <910@abnji.UUCP> <3251@ut-sally.UUCP>
Reply-To: sewilco@mecc.UUCP (Scot E. Wilcoxon)
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Organization: MN Ed Comp Corp, St. Paul, MN
Lines: 18
Keywords: F followup quote news
Summary: Long quotes discouraged by asking for approval of each line

In article <3251@ut-sally.UUCP> bulko@sally.UUCP (William C. Bulko) writes:
>...
>demonstrate the same good sense.  This is what, in my opinion, is the main
>cause of the large garbage-per-article rate:  since there is no way to force
>a person to edit his/her articles, I suggested an alternative -- making it
>inconvenient for a person to include *lengthy* quotes.

Making lengthy quotes inconvenient could also be done by
	1. asking "do you want to include this line in the article ?"
	2. reprinting the selected lines before going into ed (omit if
	   using vi?)
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