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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
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Subject: Re: followup articles
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It isn't really "long" followups that inews doesn't like, but articles which
contain an "excessive" amount of included material.  Inews counts the number
of lines that begin with ">", and if the ">" lines are more than 50% of the
total article, the followup gets rejected.

--Pat.