In message: <20031123172251.GJ3302@multics.mit.edu>
            John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> writes:
: I fear a "rule" like this discourages people from writing text with
: any verbosity. That's part of why I dislike it so strongly.

Geeze, it is just a few newlines.  No reason to get so bent out of
shape about it.

BTW, I'm just providing information, I'm not advocating one way or
another.  You might want to bear that in mind in the future when you
return fire.  Geeze.

Warner