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
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