Subj : No More Long Posts
To   : W8ZZU
From : Angus McLeod
Date : Sat Jul 23 2005 02:17 pm

  Re: No More Long Posts
  By: W8ZZU to Angus McLeod on Sat Jul 23 2005 10:02:00

 > OK, everybody else has larger hard drives.  So we should limit posting just 
 > *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.


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