| Re: A further follow up which may, or may not, be of interest |
To see the dead rise |
| Ghost (Ghosts@aredead.did) |
2006/09/16 11:28 |
In article <gp2og2teufcvlcb50s66lep8sr3n88gupf@4ax.com>, smeagol
<smeag@go|.|air> wrote:
> 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
Hi all,
And there is another reason to not snip and that is late comers. Like
myself who only just found this tread.
Well back to the back of the room. Where I can hide behind the potted
palms.
--
Ghost
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