>From: Adam Wasserman <wassermana@...>
>Reply-To: eqbards@egroups.com
>To: "'eqbards@egroups.com'" <eqbards@egroups.com>
>Subject: RE: [eqbards] New patch message
>Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 11:48:28 -0400
>
>a) I just hit reply from time to time without snipping the content of the
>previous message. Sorry. It happens. I always post at the top of the
>message
>so there's no need to read the entire thing. What I don't get is why would
>you care? The message is less than 5 kb. I hope to god you're not stuck on
>a
>2400 baud modem. If you have a halfway decent connection (33.6 or higher)
>then you will notice ZERO difference in the time it takes you to download
>the message. I hardly see the worth in bitching about it.

Look up netiquette in regards to mailing lists, please. The point isn't that
I have a slow connection (which by today's standards is pretty slow, I am on
56k). It's courtesy to snip your messages short, because many people are on
multiple mailing lists and get hundreds of e-mails every day. Those 5k
messages add up when you are active in personal, business, and multiple
mailing lists that you go through every day, and god forbid you miss a day
or two. If I miss a week of e-mail I can look forward to sifting though
hundreds upon hundreds of e-mails in my various folders. It's courtesy, and
it takes what, 2 seconds to snip your posts to save your mailing list
communities bandwidth. Bandwidth is NOT free, my friend.

Sartori D'Elsiraad<Legion>
53rd Karaoke Singer, Veeshan
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