Acbosgd.1958 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!cbosgd!mark Sun Jan 17 12:11:57 1982 Re: Truncated Articles What's probably happening is that people are stumbling across the "f" command and following up when they didn't want to. Eventually they try hitting ^D, which posts the message. If they were to hit DEL instead it would be aborted. My suggestion was that any message with fewer than K printing characters (K probably set to 2 or 3) would be refused, or at least the sender would be asked if s/he really wants to post that. The distinctive string is another reasonable idea. A third might be a more verbose message printed by the followup and reply commands, telling the user what he's doing and to hit DEL to abort. Mark ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.