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In article jfurr@acpub.duke.edu (Joel Furr) writes:

>Much as I support the idea of cleaning Cosar's clock, and much as I
>support the idea of getting UUNET to rein in their berserk user, I find
>the demands in the PETITION to be absolutely laughable.  
>
>Restrict his subject lines to 70 characters or less?  Please.  The rest
>are in the same vein.
>
>Sigh.  
>
>Looking forward to UUNET's response, which will of course say something
>about how they certainly don't have the time to enforce such restrictions
>on someone and thus won't be doing anything about it.
>
>Great way to ruin the petition, guys.

Where were you when the drafts of the petition were being posted and passed
around?  That was the time to provide substantive feedback.  It's all too
easy to play Monday-afternoon quarterback.

And about the subject line length.  You must have forgotten the unbelievable
subject line lengths (often underlined no less), that originated from Cosar's
site.  These totally swamped many news readers, making scans of the subject
lines virtually impossible.  Though this has not been mentioned often, I've
had feedback from several people since the petition was drafted saying that
was truly an obnoxious thing "that must go".  I consider anything seriously
abusive that made it much more difficult for the average reader of Usenet
(and not the net.guru who can figure out how to turn off line wraps) to read
any newsgroup.  I guess you don't.  We agree to disagree, I guess.

Jon Noring

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