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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 13:46:35 GMT
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On Sat, 16 Sep 2006 05:58:22 GMT, johnny_fairview
<johnny_lightvision@hushmail.com> wrote:
>Well, you were first but there is no way I would call you a bozo! :-)
>
>I feel it is a careless waste of resources when one considers what must
>amount to terabytes of duplicated crap flashing around the world and
>cluttering up servers everywhere. It also shows a lack of respect for
>probably the first instant international conference medium freely
>available to the man-in-the-street from most countries. I believe it
>also shows a lack of respect toward hoped for readers. My personal
>choice when I come across never ending streams of quoted and requoted
>messages posted in their entirety, well, it usually means I do not
>bother reading whatever few (or many, as the case may be) words the
>poster has added on to the end.
>
>Many believe the downhill slide began in September 1993 when AOL began
>offering Usenet access to its customers. Before that, every September
>would see hordes of new university students joining in and it would
>take a few months for these newbies to acclimatize to the posting norms.
>The influx of AOL subscribers, many of them ably fitting the
>descriptions in Mr. Follett's piece, led to the "September that never
>ended". :-) Although AOL dropped access to Usenet early in 2005,
>Google Groups appears to have picked up the torch to ensure "Eternal
>September" continues.
>
>What I do find strange is that in "the groups", not trimming follow ups
>seems to be on the increase and some posters who used to trim have
>ceased to do so. I blame this in part on their fear of certain loud
>proclamations posted about the "evils" of trimming, thereby exposing
>said proclaimers total lack of knowledge as to how Usenet is supposed to
>work. If they _do_ know how it is supposed to work then they are simply
>lying in their hysterical "do not trim" messages.
>
>All in all it is of no great import and the world will not get any
>warmer or stop turning because of such posters. I'm just thankful I had
>a decent education, am able to work things out for myself and can then
>follow my own mind and not be one of the timid flock that cowers into
>the nearest pen when the loud dog barks.
>
>johnny
>(change lightvision to fairview)
Hi:
It may be a waste of resources, but this is not 1993, and usenet has
changed a bit since then. Today, we have multiple posters posting
identical multi-gigabyte files, sometimes on the same day, in some of
the larger multimedia groups. If you could eliminate the identical
posting of just one of those files, you would accomplish more in that
single day than you could ever hope to accomplish by getting everyone
to snip in this group.
Just because someone honors another person's request not to snip does
not mean that they are uneducated, timid, or cowering to anything. For
me, it is more important to help other people to stay happy than to
save a few bytes of space. Of course, that could change of I go off my
meds. Just kidding; I do not take medication. :)
-g
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