--- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Sholto Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It can also clog up our bands. > > For instance I am monitoring a Pactor 2 transmission on 30m that has been on > going for around 25 minutes so far and the latest email to go through is > titled: > > <FW: Please read til the end-Why boys need parents...269250 > > Do we really need 262Kb emails like this on HF????
That's an interesting observation. Maybe you could keep some statistics on message lengths - it seems like Winlink ought to have a severe limit on message length. And then forwarded do-gooder emails are the bane of regular email as well as radio-forwarded mail. When I see FW in the subject like of a message I almost always delete it without reading. The few exceptions are when the rest of the subject line shows it is something related to a current topic that I am interested in. There is a book "United States Army in Vietnam, Military communications, a test for technology." It is very dry reading, being official history, yet it gives some insights into why the U.S. was losing the war. There is a passage about someone sending a message with Operational Immediate precedence, which means it blocked all messages of lower precedence, and it was so long it took 8 hours of operator time to punch into tape before it started transmitting. Then took several hours to transmit.
