Subject: Re: HELP WITH POST TO CURRENT MESSAGE

From: Ian Russell Ollmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 00:16:28 -0700

On Tue, 6 Jun 1995, Glenn Graham wrote:
> [When posting news with pine]...
> It then stops and says "error 411 more included in text than new"

This is the key phrase. Many newsservers wont accept a post to a newsgroup
if you are qouting more lines of text than you, yourself, have written.
Mine, for example, just seems to count the number of lines starting with
">" and compares it with the number of lines that don't. A common dodge is
to replace all of those little ">" with something else like ":" or ";".
Some people have gone so far as to hack the pine code to make this
automatic. Hopefully, this will solve your problem.

				Ian

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From: Glenn Graham <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Jun 1995 03:55:38 -0700

No, I'm not so stupid I don't know how to post a message.

The problem, I'm having is as follows:

case:

I am in a usenet newsgroup reading a posting from another user.
I want to edit and add something to that existing posting
I press the "R" reply key
The editor comes on screen
It asks post followup to newgroup ?
I answer yes
I then enter my text
After I finish I enter ^X to send
The system asks to send the message
I reply yes
The system says "may be posted to thousands of people
I reply yes
It then starts to write to Fcc
It then stops and says "error 411 more included in text than new"
message not sent

Now I notice I can post a Re: to that message that will be displayed in 
another folder if I answer NO to posting to "Follow up to newsgroup"
but if I answer yes to "follow up to newsgroup " the message won't be sent.

How come????

Please reply

Thanks.....Glenn

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From: "Ben T. Feese" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 18:50:32 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, Ian Russell Ollmann wrote:
snip snip snip snip

> Some people have gone so far as to hack the pine code to make this
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
> automatic. Hopefully, this will solve your problem.
   ^^^^^^^^^^
Any suggestions on how to do this?  Is there a "find-and-replace" 
function in pine's editor, pico?

-btf

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