Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rochester!pt!sei!sei.cmu.edu!pdb From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron) Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc Subject: Re: followup articles Message-ID: <1856@aw.sei.cmu.edu> Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 18:22:34 EDT Article-I.D.: aw.1856 Posted: Fri Jul 10 18:22:34 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 12-Jul-87 12:31:03 EDT References: <738@trwcsed.trwrb.UUCP> Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu Reply-To: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Pat Barron) Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, SEI, Pgh, Pa Lines: 7 Keywords: followup Xref: mnetor news.groups:1219 news.misc:742 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.