On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 10:48, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: > On 13/04/2004, at 4:18 AM, Onno Benschop wrote: > > > > > ..let the flames begin.. > > OK. I'll bite! Congratulations! Your response, all about the cost of > email traffic to mailing lists, was absolutely breathtaking in its > irony.
Noted. As soon as you devise a strategy that allows and encourages community debate about this community that does not include the use of bandwidth, I'd like to hear it. > Someone sends a couple of "innocent" (your quotes, not mine) test > messages, which most of us happily ignore and move on with our lives, > and cops a three page lecture about sending too much email traffic. Sigh, there is one fundamental difference between the test messages and the message I wrote, and that is that the original three test messages contributed nothing to this community but only cost it and were completely unnecessary, where my message sought to create debate to improve this community, witness the replies I've received to date. While I agree with you that my message used bandwidth, in fact more than the original message, there is in our electronic community no other way to start a public debate. > Superb! A great way to get people to unsubscribe and never come back. If people read a message and feel offended by an attempt by a long-standing member of this community to improve the signal to noise ratio, then that is their prerogative. I feel sorry for their loss. Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S38°01'05" - E145°25'10" (Upper Beaconsfield, VIC) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 8888 - onno at itmaze dot com dot au
