[news.misc] The 50rule is in--now what?

root@shuksan.UUCP (Operator <often mikey>) (11/25/86)

> 
> The 50% rule is there, it seems to me, to catch the careless, not the
> malicious.  If it's going to take as much energy to beat inews as it
> would to edit the article, I think most users would opt for editing.
> We have a *lot* of accounts on sphinx (over 2500), and if people were
> inclined to entertain themselves by playing games with inews we'd be
> seeing some evidence of it.
> 
> I think, though, that the front ends to inews should also check
> included lines so that the user will know that there's a problem before
> the text is passed off to inews.
> -- 
> Melinda Shore                               ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor
> University of Chicago Computation Center    XASSHOR@UCHIMVS1.Bitnet

What is a rational person doing on the net?? (No foaming at the mouth,
no nasty four letter comments - what is this comming to??).  

I agree.  I would like to see the 50% rule waived for less than 20 lines.
I also think there needs to be an override for the case mentioned by 
Brian Reid ( diff files with the ">" in the lines ).


			     Mikey (yes "he likes it!")

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