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In news.admin.misc, article <C1BGoz.MGE@mwblind>,
  jerbo@mwblind (Jeremy Bettis) writes:
> 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.)

INN doesn't do this. It only has a quote check for local postings (it says
so right there in the config file) which is turnoffable quite easily.

The reeal problem is that it's too easy t subvert that check in the first
place; just replace the default quote character with something else.

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