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Re: Combating spam [was: Re: Power Macintosh G3...]




From: [email protected] (Trevor Zion Bauknight)

> In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
wrote:
> 
> > Ok, I will explain this one more time.  My news server will not allow
> > me to post unless there is more added text than quoted text.  That
> > leaves me with three choices.
> >
> > 1: Delete more quoted text than would be fair.
> > 2: Ramble on when brevity is sufficient
> > 3: Add a long sig which both solves my News server problem and helps
> > combat spam.
> 
> 4. Have something worthwhile to say when you hit "reply."
>
> Incredible...my news server is the same way.  There's a reason.  Yet I
> seem to be able to get along with my two-line sig.  You know when I found
> out that my news server has this feature?  When I was trying to criticize
> your sig and I had to delete 90% of it before I could post.

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