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Re: What to do about humongous postings

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From: Tom Neff
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 1991 03:55
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In article <EMV.91Feb24154102@poe.aa.ox.com> emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
>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.

Hmm, that <uu6RX26w163w@mantis.co.uk> article had about 15 quoted lines,
total.

Two pages worth?  Ed, I thought I told you to trade in that Casio Wizard :-)
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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.b
Subject: Re: What to do about humongous postings
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Date: 25 Feb 91 03:55:24 GMT
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