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Old June 28th 05, 01:28 PM
Rich Ahrens
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Morgans wrote:
Two things come to mind. For those whom dial up is the only option,
9k for a "me too" is a serious *time* waster, and a pain in the arse.


As are arguments like this, of course.

The other is that it shows a true laziness of the responder, and
strikes me as though the responder thinks his time (of not taking
the time to trim) is more important than your time. (the reader,
trying to scroll down through a post, and see if there is anything
else new, through all the lines of repeated posting)


Kinda like being too lazy to change the subject line when you take a
technical topic off on a tangent about people's attitudes, divorce,
etc.? So that the reader has to download and scroll through posts to see
if they have the slightest connection to, oh, engines?

Physician, heal thyself...