Subject: News posting error

From: Joe Klein <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:58:35 +0200

I was trying to Following-Up to a news article and got the following:

[Error posting message: 441 Article not posted -- more included text than
new text]

I understand what this means, but it doesn't seem right. Isn't it
reasonable that sometimes a follow-up would be shorter than the original
text. Do other news tools enforce the same restriction ?  Is there any way
of turning this off in Pine ? 

Joe Klein
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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 12:09:38 +0100 (BST)

On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Joe Klein wrote:

> text.

This may be true.

Note however that the message is not referring simply to the size of your
reply article compared with the original article, but is actually
referring to the proportion of "new" text _within_ your reply article
compared with the amount of "old" text you included and quoted.

> Do other news tools enforce the same restriction ?

This check is not performed by Pine or any other news reading program that
I'm aware of.

Instead it is an option of the news server that you are connecting to.

The news reading program (in this case Pine) is simply reporting to you
the error message returned to it by the news server software as it
attempted to post your article.

> Is there any way

No (it isn't Pine; see above).  Instead you will have to try beating your
News Administrator over the head with a wet kipper and see if they can be
persuaded to turn the check off on the news server software itself.

Cheers,

-- 
Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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