"Pearl Harbor" still sucks...
"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
news:eYZ3g.10298$ZW3.6267@dukeread04...
Maybe we can both improve, but at least unclipped can be
read in one place and bandwidth isn't a problem.
I had no trouble at all going back to the previous message to which AJ
replied. So that "isn't a problem" either.
In either case, the trangressor can *claim* there's "no problem". In
reality, neither is a very polite way to use the newsgroup. When you fail
to trim a few lines, it's simply annoying. When you fail to trim an entire
100 line post just to add a couple of sentences of your own, you are wasting
bandwidth in a 50-to-1 ratio.
Just because we aren't all on dial-up anymore, that doesn't mean that a)
*everyone* isn't on dial-up, and b) that we don't all pay for bandwidth some
way somewhere. There are a number of issues related to the wasteful
excessive quoting that occurs, including (but not limited to) end-user time
and cost, and lifetime of a post on a news server.
Suffice to say, it's pretty ironic for you of all people to take AJ to task
for his posting habits. There's an old saying about a log and a splinter
that seems appropriate here.
Pete
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