Acbosgd.186 net.news utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:mhtsa!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Thu Dec 10 10:30:25 1981 one character messages I have seen a number of one character followups and replies, and have so far chalked them up to somebody not knowing what they were doing. Noise on the line is, of course, a possibility. It would certainly be a useful feature if the followup command (or inews itself) would check to make sure the message contains at least K printing characters (K might be 3, for example) and if not, print a message such as you have just asked to post an article to newsgroup %s containing the text: ... Do you really want to post this? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.