Rant (was: Re: Fwd: Who wins in November does matter)

[kelley]

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote:

><rant on - to people in general, not Nathan>
>
>It's amazing to me, hanging out
>on other lists, just how big a percentage
>of the text in a typical LBO digest is quoted
>text.


amazing ain't it  and doug pays per k over his limit which is almost all 
the time.  something like $100 a month i'll guess.

a significant amt of that is really the giant dingleberries people leave 
hanging off the end of their one line post.

now, forwarding of articles, that's a tough one.  quite a few people on the 
list don't have easy web access:  crummy 14.4 still i bet and even 28.8 
modems are  a pain with some web pages.  also, people who live outside the 
US often end up paying for time on line by the minute.  at least with a 
forwarded article on an email list they can read offline, whereas an 
article on line often takes up 2 or more pages and requires that you stay 
on line.

i also think people feel that articles will have a better chance of being 
read and responded to if it is posted in its entirety.  dunno.

at any rate, my 1.7 in IMF funny money.  i agree that requoting the same 
text over and over again is rude and inconsiderate, especially given that 
doug pays for that text each time it's sent.

in fact, i've bitched about it before, to  no avail....

kelley