Subject: Again: ... post size
Date: Jan 20 09:20:30 1995
From: Serge Le Huitouze - serge at cs.sfu.ca



Hi tweeters,

Recent postings have reminded me of what was said a few weeks ago about the
size if the post you make here.

As someone mentionned at that time, some people pay this Internet service
according to the amount, ie. the size, of the mail they receive. I personally
don't suffer this problem, but think it CAN be a problem.

One suggestion was that, when replying or following up a previous post, one
should not include ALL the content of the previous post, but only relevant
parts of it.

I think tweeters should try to conform to this way of replying in order to
save a little "bandwidth".

On the other extreme, some tweeters tend to systematically suppress all the
content of the previous post. I don't think this is very good either, because
it might be difficult to recall what the original subject was.
Also, please, put the recall of the previous post BEFORE your answer.

Well, I think of this post as being kind of "military", which I don't like :-),
but I only do it because I think it will increase the readability of this
list.

But, of course, I can't force you to do it :-) SIGH...

Cheers
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Serge Le Huitouze School of Computing Science
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