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From: smkindersley@water.UUCP (sumo kindersley)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Quoting in SF-Lovers
Message-ID: <963@water.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 07:19:31 EST
Article-I.D.: water.963
Posted: Fri Nov  1 07:19:31 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 06:07:14 EST
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problem with re-quoting:
   for some of us it has gone beyond annoying at 300 baud (even at 9600!).
   our site is LOSING SOME NEWSGROUPS becuse of high phone bills at our news
   node. sigh. i don't know about net.sf-lovers yet, maybe we'll get to keep
   it. they are axing a few high volume ones. but about 40% (FORTY PERCENT!?)
   of the content of the articles in the news directory is `junk' - requotes,
   long signature files. CONTEXT IS NECESSARY. display of one's personality
   MAY be necessary for some. this does not include endless repetitions of the
   same comments (did anyone know tiptree is a WOMAN? well SO is andre norton!
   surprise surprise). SOMEBODY pays those phone bills. it isn't you or me. so
   what. anyway think about our loss when you are requoting. it is too late for
   us and net.music and a few others, but please use RESTRAINT (how is this:
   never quote more lines than YOU are writing).
maybe we won't lose any more groups. *PLEASE*? thanks, a lot.
--- sumo --- {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,utcsri}!watmath!water!smkindersley ---