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    Re: Informal CFD: robotics competition newsgroup(s) —Matthew Miller
   (...) Is that one rule difference enough to make it a seperate group? I don't think so. PS: nuther random suggestion for todd -- the news server at bu is set up so that it will only accept posts with more new content than quoted stuff. seems like a (...) (26 years ago, 13-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Quoted/non-quoted ratio —Todd Lehman
   (...) How does it calculate the sizes of the two halves? Lines? Bytes? Non-whitespace characters? In practice, does it encourage things like large signature files and fluff-filling to get around the rule? How does it identify quoted stuff? Does it (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Quoted/non-quoted ratio —Matthew Miller
     (...) Lines, I think. I'm not sure exactly of the details -- I'll ask one of the news people here and get back to you. (...) The point really is just to stop those posts which are 90% quoting.... I hate that. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Quoted/non-quoted ratio —Jim Baker
   Also sprach Todd Lehman: : How does it identify quoted stuff? Does it correctly handle >, |, +, and : : in all cases? (Not everyone uses >, unfortunately.) Good point. But '>' is not entirely standard. tin is about as venerable a newsreader as you (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Quoted/non-quoted ratio —Todd Lehman
   (...) Well put. And good documentation for the record. :) It's an extremely difficult problem to solve correctly in a completely mechanized way. My questions to Matt were designed to highlight the difficulties and I hope it didn't seem like I was (...) (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: Quoted/non-quoted ratio —Matthew Miller
   (...) :) yeah well. it was just a thought. (26 years ago, 14-Jan-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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