On Apr 25, Jaguar wrote:
> Wow...a bunch of whiner's!!! (although a 2 MB file is quite large)
Oh, you think so? Considering most list mail is <3Kb, I'd say 2.8Mb is pretty
dang big!
> If your ISP connect is so bad ie: crappy ISP, worse phone lines, or a 28.8
> modem...all of these can be fixed fairly easily...the easiest would be to but
> a $40.00 hardware modem from Cirrus Logic or some other Co., and probably sign
> with a new ISP...even the phone lines can be upgraded if you complain to your
> TelCO enuff.
How generous of you to spend my money! My old 14.4Kbps modem works just fine
for the vast majority of the mail I get from my ISP. Most of the time I get
my mail while at work (56Kbps), but not in the evenings and on the weekend.
Besides, why should I upgrade or change anything when the common-sense
netiquette says not to post binary-type info to a textual maling list. Ditto
for the common newsgroups.
> But some of you even complain about a 1 or 2 K HTML/business card attachment,
> as a "waste of bandwidth"....do some of you have 2400 modems still???? When I
> think that excessively (4 lines of text or more) long sig files or
> advertisments for web pages NOT even your own, or people that add "Ya me too"
> or some such thing to an already long thread, is in reality a total waste of
> everyone's time. I don't really care to see 4 or more lines in a sig file as
> it is usually a banal quote from someone long dead, or even worse...unheard
> of. Some of the sig's I have seen make NO sense what so ever?????
Wait a minute. Are you saying that 1-2K HTML attachments are just fine, but
.sig files >4 lines are offensive? If that *is* what you are saying, then I
guess to you it all just depends on whose ox is gored. I guess if you hadn't
liked the audio file, then you'd be all up-in-arms against the guy.
-Michael
--
No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it
all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly
the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these
republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it
ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under
every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the
best.
-- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816
