Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc:17050 comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:540 comp.emacs:3799 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!rutgers!umn-d-ub!umn-cs!ns!ddb From: ddb@ns.ns.com (David Dyer-Bennet) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.emacs Subject: Re: US PC programmers still live in a 7-bit world! Summary: Common sense says not to build complex rules into simple software Message-ID: <343@ns.ns.com> Date: 7 Jul 88 19:01:27 GMT References: <1988Jun22.223158.1366@LTH.Se> <699@omen.UUCP> <1288@odyssee.UUCP> <133@dcs.UUCP> Organization: Network Systems Corp. Mpls MN Lines: 12 In article <133@dcs.UUCP>, wnp@dcs.UUCP (Wolf N. Paul) writes: > The purpose of the "more new text than included quote" is to REDUCE VOLUME; > to add garbage new text has exactly the opposite effect. Use common sense, > folks! Common sense would dictate not attempting to impose a stupid "new text ratio" requirement through the news software. While it is possible to "fool" that software, I have also chosen instead to make my protest visible on the occasions when I've been saddled with it. -- -- David Dyer-Bennet ddb@viper.Lynx.MN.Org, ...{amdahl,hpda}!bungia!viper!ddb Fidonet 1:282/341.0, (612) 721-8967 hst/2400/1200/300