Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why is my post being rejected?
Message-ID: <1991Jun17.190440.26978@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 1991 19:04:40 GMT
References: <14JUN91.15182407@nerus.pfc.mit.edu> <1991Jun14.155246.12371@ecst.csuchico.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Jun14.155246.12371@ecst.csuchico.edu> warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy) writes:
>-->	441 inews: Article rejected: news included more text than new text
>
>  I wish more posters enforced this...

Actually, it's a dumb idea that has accomplished almost nothing.  The
main result has been increased creativity in quoting schemes for included
text, which is actually counterproductive because it makes automated
analysis of news harder.  Improving the new:quoted ratio would be good,
but this was not the way to do it.

Note that John's own software is using a quoting convention that defeats
the included<new enforcement.
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"We're thinking about upgrading from    | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5."              |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu  utzoo!henry
