On 12/6/02 12:14, "Brett V. Gaspers" <bgaspers at alum.mit.edu> wrote: > Did you ever happen to consider that when people quote all this > extraneous garbage, that people on digest mode have to wade through > even reams of text? Making the signal to noise ratio of this list > even lower than it already is (which isn't saying much). This isn't > an issue of bandwidth, it is an issue of readibility. I second that emotion! Also the original poster was referring to people who reply to list messages who don't edit the amount of previous quoted text that often includes digest footers over and over. JB