[Greenbuilding] Energy and the Internet

[bilrob at silcom.com]

Is this over quoting thing a posted rule or something that some want for 
personal reasons?

I find that it is better use of my time when I choose to follow a thread to be 
able to open the latest email and read it through rather than have to open each 
post.

Differing opinions and needs make for an interesting world dontcha think?

Bill R

Quoting Speireag Alden <speireag at gmail.com>:

> 
> On 2007, Dec 03, at 14:17, Marilyn wrote:
> 
> > Do you think this will encourage the slackers to trim their  
> > messages??  I'm sending it out to all my dist. lists
> > with hopes <G>
> 
>      At the risk of sounding like a grinch, no.
> 
>      As far as I can tell, after years of asking people to trim their  
> posts, the only way to obtain compliance is to have a list rule  
> against overquoting and a list administrator willing to boot people  
> when they don't follow it.
> 
>      Asking people not to overquote is like asking teenagers please  
> not to throw their beer cans on the side of the road.  Pointing out  
> that some list members pay by the bite, or are on low-speed  
> connections?  You might as well spit into a wind tunnel.
> 
> -Speireag.
> 
> 
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