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- Path: sparky!uunet!mdisea!uw-coco!nwnexus!remote!UUCP
- From: Rick.Kingcade@f22.n280.z1.fidonet.org (Rick Kingcade)
- Newsgroups: misc.emerg-services
- Subject: Short, personal, annoying, space eating, time consuming messages
- Message-ID: <721964216.F00007@remote.halcyon.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1992 21:07:00 -0800
- Sender: UUCP@remote.halcyon.com
- Lines: 35
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- Hello jpn1:
-
- 09 Nov 92, jpn1 writes to All:
-
- j> I notice a lot of these are coming from FidoNet. I don't know why,
- but you
- j> guys should be a little more considerate. Please realize that
- these
- j> messages come through with about 20 lines of header and 3 lines of
- text,
- j> and get distributed throughout the world. This wastes resources,
- and net
- j> resources are not inexhaustable. Here's a hint: If you start the
- message
- j> with a person's name it could probably be sent through e-mail.
- Also, think
- j> about the person 12,000 miles away reading the list: will they know
- what
- j> you're talking about or care? If not, send it e-mail.
-
- It's probably about as annoying to you as it is to us Fido-types to have
- six lines of group.subgroup.whatever type stuff, and another six or ten
- lines of macro-generated message signature. Not to mention having to
- respond to a person named (in this case) jpn1. I don't know about
- Usenet/Bitnet/whatever it is called, but on Fidonet many systems pay
- based on the amount of data transferred, so overly long signatures and
- extraneous routing information costs $$.
-
- My point is, not only would fewer messages help, but 'paring' down the
- superfluous stuff in the messages would do some good as well.
-
- Rick
-
- * Origin: KC Central BBS HST/DS <KCMO> (1:280/22)
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