On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 20:41, Robin Turner wrote: > Heh, I love these Von Neumann-type threads. I recently commented on a spam to > another list because I thought it was funny, and received a self-righteous > reply (to both myself and the list) telling me I was wasting bandwidth - I > mean the guy is so annoyed that I've wasted 3 seconds of his time opening > what I admit was a pretty silly post, that he spends much more time to tell > me off about it _and_ posts it to the list so other people will waste their > time. > As I've said before, off-topic/whimsical/silly posts are IMO fine (I > generally prefer them to the more serious technical ones) but could people > please mark them "OT" so others who don't want to read them won't, and we > don't get our wrists slapped by Netiquette Nanny. > > Robin
I have to agree. I get maybe 20-100 messages from the newbie/expert lists at the end of a day, if I havent left the machine on. While I understand the principle of ultimate efficiency with regard to maximizing the download time to several hundred tenths of a second, I also am not perceptually damaged enough to go apeshit over it. There's the human component of the list to revere, and while I realize that there needs to be a cap on that also, it's my studied opinion that no one has violated that cap in this thread (with the possible exception of John.) L8R, LX _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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