Matt Turner posted on Thu, 20 Dec 2012 22:29:09 -0800 as excerpted: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:09 PM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote: >> >> > Do you realize that you just wrote a two-and-a-half page single-spaced > thousand-word email? Seriously, this is way too much. This mailing list > is way too much.
173 lines (of about 72 chars) according to my client (reporting the value given in the gmane overviews, I believe). 150+, including quoted material of perhaps 20-50 lines, aren't unusual here. 400+ are not unheard of. I was posting a bit of gentoo history behind a policy in question. History tends to /be/ a bit wordy at a reasonable level of detail, as necessary there to explain the reasoning[1] behind the policy being questioned. --- [1] Again, as I understand it, subject to correction by others there and closer to the process. No claims of infallibility here! -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
