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- From: amon@elegabalus.cs.qub.ac.uk
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- Subject: A pet peeve...
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- Date: 14 Aug 92 12:37:21 GMT
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- Every once in awhile it has to be said. Please think about all the
- extra junk you are posting. It particularly struck me when I just
- read a posting that had about 30 lines of > text, followed by ONE
- SINGLE LINE with 5 words on it, followed by a signature line.
-
- The Signal to Noise ration of that post approached 0. With newer
- mailers it is getting all to easy for the lazy to just repost it all,
- even unto the third >>>. PLEASE summarize. PLEASE keep you
- .signatures down to a reasonable size, ie a couple lines at most.
- Cute is fine, but after the umpteenth time, I'm hardly interested in
- it.
-
- It is particularly striking how the percentage of junk surrounding
- the information has gone up between the early volumes and now,
- something very apparent since I've been going through them back to
- V1-1 while working on the archive.
-
- If people were to cut back on the use of > and .sig, we could
- probably double or quadruple the real information content of an issue
- of Space Digest. Or else let the bandwidth be used for something
- useful.
-
- Dale Amon
-