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From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng)
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Subject: Re: followup articles
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Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 12:58:27 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 17 12:58:27 1987
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In article <1856@aw.sei.cmu.edu>, pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) writes:
> 
> 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.


As one who sometimes adds 'fodder' to prevent the inews rejection, I'd
like to suggest a modification.  Only start counting if the followup
exceeds a certain size, a 80x24 screen for example.  Sometimes I want
to make a small remark on something, and then add junk to make sure
that inews doesn't reject it.  I am going on the presumption that
the goal of this is to deter those who are posting followups to articles
that are several hundred lines long, and don't bother to edit the 
material.  Comments?


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