Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!jvnca!njitsc1!argus!ken From: ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc Subject: Re: followup articles Message-ID: <960@argus.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 12:58:27 EDT Article-I.D.: argus.960 Posted: Fri Jul 17 12:58:27 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 08:37:38 EDT References: <738@trwcsed.trwrb.UUCP> <1856@aw.sei.cmu.edu> Organization: NJ Instit. of Tech: TEIES Project Lines: 24 Keywords: followup Xref: mnetor news.groups:1258 news.misc:777 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? Kenneth Ng: Post office: NJIT - CCCC, Newark New Jersey 07102 uucp !ihnp4!allegra!bellcore!argus!ken *** NOT ken@bellcore.uucp *** bitnet(prefered) ken@orion.bitnet North: "They were doing their job, I was doing mine"