Ok. Sorry. :)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip S Tellis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2000 12:37 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: large quoted to reply ratio
>
>
> Sometime Today, Vishal Doshi assembled some asciibets to say:
>
> > www.dyndns.org or net or com.
>
> [snip 51 lines of original text]
>
> The original message was 51 lines long. Your reply was 1 line long. I
> want to know:
>
> - Are you too damn lazy to snip the original text and/or summarise
> - Do you think we have nothing better to do than look through pages of
> irrelevant text to see your one liners?
> - Do you think bandwidth is a wastable commodity that you can send 400%
> more data than you need to?
> - Do you read top to bottom or mid to bottom and then top to mid? I know
> most of us humans read top to bottom and don't like going back.
>
> Here's a clip from Tom Christiansen. I figure you're too damn lazy to
> read the whole thing when I post it:
>
> Here's the issue: you appear to have quoted the entire message to which
> you were replying. Worst of all, you have done so by merely appending
> the complete message at the bottom. Folks are used to reading the
> original material first, then the follow-up. That's why it's called a
> "follow-up", you know. :-)
>
> This is not the first or second or third time that you are doing this. It
> seems that this is the only thing you do on this list. I know you send a
> few good replies, but they are all overshadowed by this habit of yours.
> Please change.
>
> Philip
>
> PS: Don't tell me you're surprised at how your single line message
> generated a 32 line reply. In your case the q/r ratio is 51. In my case
> it's 0.03125. The difference is 1632 units.
>
> --
> Every program is a part of some other program, and rarely fits.
>
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