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Article #241Re: fascist inews refuses short replies- Solution?
From: Jeremy Bettis
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:02
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:02
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mark@wehi.edu.au (Mark Watson) writes:
> Perhaps there should be a .inewsrc file that contains
>a flag to 'override quote_check' for those that feel in necessary to
>quote a lot (or all) of an article as part of replying.
> The bottom line here is maximizing user configurability since you can
>NEVER satify all users.
I don't think this is an option, as the news systems which are throwing out
more than 1/2 quoted messages are doing it for ALL, not just local posts.
(At least this is the case around here, my news gets out through the Univ of
Nebraska which is running INN and it tosses out messages which are more than
1/2 quoted material.)
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Newsgroups: news.admin.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!dsndata!mmedia!mwblind!jerbo From: jerbo@mwblind (Jeremy Bettis) Subject: Re: fascist inews refuses short replies- Solution? Organization: Midwest Venetian Blind Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 17:02:59 GMT Message-ID: <C1BGoz.MGE@mwblind> References: <1j4bn5INNj1e@gaia.ucs.orst.edu><1993Jan15.052502.23318@mr.med.ge.com><BETSYS. 93Jan18182203@ra.cs.umb.edu> <MCGLK.93Jan19135648@yang.cpac.washington.edu> <1jo3a1INN614@wehil.wehi.edu.au>