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From: sandro@itsgw.RPI.EDU (Sandro Wallach)
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Subject: Re: followup articles (# of lines check)
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Date: Sat, 25-Jul-87 19:39:43 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jul 25 19:39:43 1987
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Reply-To: sandro@itsgw.rpi.edu (Sandro Wallach)
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I've seen various discussions about how inews tries to make people be
reasonable in quoting others' articles, and the discussions do run in
circles, but I've never seen someone comment on having an experience
like I did when I first hit the limit.

I did a reply, adding about 2 lines to the 10 lines I was quoting.  Inews
gave me its error message.   I went back and cut the article I was quoting
down to about 3 lines.   Having thought about what I was saying some more,
I added a bit and rewrote it.  My new comments were about 6 lines.  Inews
was happier, and so were the people who read my article.



Now while I find the enforcement of this limit a bit strange, and almost
offensive, I'm sure there are a lot of other people out there who have,
like me, been saved from the evil over over-quoting by this little feature.

I think that's great.


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