Re: mail relays

karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu
Thu, 25 Oct 90 16:18:41 -0400

Date: Thu, 25 Oct 90 13:00:44 pdt
From: bjones@ucsd.edu (Bruce Jones)

have
there been other changes over time that tried to address the quality
issue?

4-line limitation on .signature. It can't prevent the user who reads
in his monster .signature by hand, but it stops a _lot_ of trash.

"included more text than new text" error to prevent excessive quoting.
(I have this memory of Brad chastising Larry Wall fairly severely in
1985 or so for creating F/R commands in rn.)

Default Followup-To: to only the first newsgroup specified for
many-newsgroup postings; only in the face of no Followup-To: supplied
by the user.

All B News-only, I believe. That's unfortunate, IMHO.

Little things, but they help.

--karl

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