Subj : No More Long Posts
To   : Angus McLeod
From : W8ZZU
Date : Sun Jul 24 2005 01:29 am

  Re: No More Long Posts
  By: Angus McLeod to W8ZZU on Sat Jul 23 2005 03:17 pm

 >  > OK, everybody else has larger hard drives.  So we should limit posting ju
 >  > *YOU* then?
 > 
 > No.  I am saying that UNNECESSARILY long posts should be avoided.  If I
 > find something of interest on the WWW that I think might be of value to
 > the readers of this sub, I won't cut'n'paste the entire 10,000 lines of it
 > here.  I'll post the one-line URL.  It's just a matter of common-sense.
 > 
 >  > Also, most people limit their message areas to about 500 or maybe 1000
 >  > messages..  I don't even see space being an issue..  Maybe having dialup
 >  > is an issue but not the hard drive.
 > 
 > I think you are missing the point again, which is to minimize WASTE of
 > space and bandwidth, unnecessarily.  I think that all network users should
 > consider that a Good Thing (tm) to strive towards.
 > 
 > if the poster in question had written 1,000+ lines of original thought, an
 > interesting article on antennas, say, or an account of a DXpedition he'd
 > been on, and posted it here, I'd have been glad to see it.  The fact that
 > he had simply gone to http://ww.arrl.org/ and cut'n'pasted an article in
 > here seemed to me to be a complete waste of effort.  There are *millions*
 > of articles I could do the same with -- but to what end?
 > 
 >  > Let me guess, you don't limit your message areas right?  just for the
 >  > sake of argument.  <sigh>
 > 
 > Generally, no.  I don't limit my message areas.

OK on all points..

Jason - Whiskey Eight Zulu Zulu Uniform




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