🚀 go-pugleaf

It's a variable you set when you compile the News server (INN) that is
causing this.  I think it was to encourage people to only post when they
really had something to say.  But then, that would mean you valued quantity
over quality.  I turned that off on my news server (alaska.net).

Skippy (lsmjb@orion.alaska.edu) wrote:
: In article <1994Oct21.202900.1@orion.alaska.edu>, lsmjb@orion.alaska.edu writes:
: > In article <1994Oct19.202824.1@orion.alaska.edu>, lnjvs@orion.alaska.edu writes:

: > 
: > And this is my attempt to use the followup command. (Actually this is my 
: > second attempt. The first attempt was not successful because evidently I 
: > was not as longwinded as my instructor with his 'fancy' signature file.
: > Maybe this one will 'take') I'm going to stop here to discover whether
: > the measurement is in bytes of data or lines of length.

: And this is another followup test with my own (not so fancy) signature file. I
: hope this is long enough to be accepted by the server without rejecting it for
: being shorter than the original message I am quoting. I discovered that if your
: followup text is shorter than the file you are quoting the server will reject
: it. I think this is long enough, but I'm typing this last sentence just to make
: sure. It's easier than deleting the old message!-- 
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