Re: What to do about humongous postings

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From: Ed Vielmetti
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 1991 20:41

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In article <uu6RX26w163w@mantis.co.uk> 
 mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:

well, he writes something, but I didn't see it until two pages worth
of some old posting which I had already read had already scrolled by.
then I find out it's about overly long postings.

i don't know about you but i am not convinced about someone going on
overly long and with lots of excess verbiage about how we have to
worry about big articles.

-- 
 Msen	Edward Vielmetti
/|---	moderator, comp.archives
	emv@msen.com

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From: emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti)
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Subject: Re: What to do about humongous postings
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