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From: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc
Subject: Re: followup articles
Message-ID: <761@haddock.ISC.COM>
Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 12:47:50 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 20 12:47:50 1987
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Reply-To: karl@haddock.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
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[I don't think this belongs in news.groups; followups will go to news.misc]

In article <960@argus.UUCP> ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes:
>As one who sometimes adds 'fodder' to prevent the inews rejection, I'd like
>to suggest [that the 50% rule only apply for >24 lines].  Sometimes I want to
>make a small remark on something, and then add junk to make sure that inews
>doesn't reject it. ... Comments?

Please don't add "inews fodder" -- I sympathize with your frustration, but I
don't want to have to read the junk lines.  If you *must* bypass the 50% rule,
change the quote character from ">" to "|" or something.

Learn to edit the quoted portion effectively.  If necessary, rewrite the whole
thing as a paraphrase (and mark it as such).  Always edit out the signature,
but leave the attribution line at the top.

I agree that the 50% rule should probably be amended, primarily because so
many people are using the "fodder" technique to bypass it.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint
(None of the above is directed to any single person, btw.)