[net.followup] Message clutter

eric (07/28/82)

AHH, BUT: how many of those 33 lines were just blanks lines?
a blank line is NOT 80 x octal 040, but (1 x octal 012 + 1x octal 015).

so, 33 lines could be as little as 66 chars. show me a count of characters,
and i'll bet that percentage goes up to more than 4 percent!!