[Ti] humble request

[Victor Eijkhout]

>Let's put this into perspective, ma-an. That "netiquette" is outdated.
>In the "damn good ol' days" a few lines actually made some sort of
>difference. 9600, even 56k connections, geeks were quite aware of the
>bandwidth. Bandwidth was hi-dollar. Routers were sparse and fiber was
>still being patched in, and phone line time cost by the minute.
>
>But today, the old King Sized Net is dead, closed up, tightened down,
>boarded over, re-routed to the Pentagon, and sold out to a few lawyers
>and CEO's. Now it is full of corruption, greed, corporate invasion,
>evil, soft money, overvalued stock, V.D., laws for laws for laws, rules,
>POP ups, overly sensitive mom's, impedent but well-dressed lawyers,
>advertising, HTML mail, Flash, SPAM, jokes, Virtual Cards, Outlook
>Express mail, viruses, unaltered JPG's, did I say SPAM ten hundred
>times? The RIAA's tears alone take up 4 billion lines of code a day.
>
>The only guy who is actually helping the Internet bandwidth issue is
>King George, who tears web-sites down if he doesn't like the looks of
>'em or what they say. Hey, it does save some bandwidth.
>
>We delete 100 SPAMS from the Inbox, and hope we don't delete a message
>from our boss, 20 lines (if that) of miserable text which
>display--heaven forbid-individuality, or identify the list, is so
>irrelevant IMO. Complaining about a few lines of simple text is like
>complaining about hanging clothes to dry on a cloths-line while it's
>pouring down rain.
>
>Now, there is nothing wrong with promoting clean e-mails. Nothing wrong
>with that. :-)

No indeed.

>
>BTW, the list info only appears once unless someone replies under the
>sig, IIRC. So, no matter how many times you reply to the list, the email
>retains only one footer. Is that right? I guess we'll find out when I
>hit the send button right now.
>
>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: PowerBook G4 Titanium List
>>  [mailto:Titanium at lists.themacintoshguy.com] On Behalf Of Trevor J.
>Hutley
>>  Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 9:29 AM
>>  To: PowerBook G4 Titanium List
>>  Subject: Re: [Ti] humble request
>>
>>  At 01:15 +1000 7-12-2002, Eduard Hoenkamp wrote:
>>  >Some people send very long quotations. Especially the last 20 lines
>>  >of the digest is needlessly included over and over again. Often I
>>  >find it hard to locate the actual content. It costs me time and/or
>>  >makes me overlook messages. Eduard.
>>
>>  Eduard - this issue of 'netiquette' does justly arise from time to
>time.
>>  For those of us (all in this List) on a Mac, cutting and handling
>>  text in email should be trivial, so complying with the 'rules' should
>>  not be any time issue.
>>  We do from time to time need the reminder, to pay attention to this
>>  matter.  Thanks.
>>  Trevor
>>
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