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From: jkw@lanl.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.astro
Subject: Re: StarDate: November 2 Spica and Venus
Message-ID: <32944@lanl.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 10:54:38 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 10:54:38 1985
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> Let me first of all say that I enjoy the StarDate series. It is
> informative even if I never get the chance to see the heavenly
> bodies mentioned due to inclement weather or what not.
> 
> My peeve is the constant use of the phrase "More -- after this".
> It gives me bad memories of TV commercial breaks. As far as I
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> can see, it usually is "More -- after this newline". How about
> dropping it?


That's exactly why it's there -- the Stardate articles you see are actually
scripts for the radio program and somebody has to pay for them.  Hence,
commercial breaks.