Mark,
Thanks for the explanation.
I hope everyone reads and thinks about the implications of your
message as a little understanding goes a long, long way!
Without an understanding of how this all works I don't think it at
all surprising that people are just deleting the "death trailer line"
I really doubt very much that it is down to, as you put it -
"basic courtesy is just an unknown concept to some people."
Equally, there is little use in sending the "I agree", or "yes that
worked!" message without at least a line or two of the original post!
So c'mon everyone, lets all help Mark to keep these lists going! Let's
value what we have as something worth supporting and keeping.
Guy
----- Original Message -----
From "Mark J Bradakis" <mjb at autox.team.net>
To: <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: 15 December 2002 03:18
Subject: Bandwidth and replies
> Actually, the internet connection isn't too bad. The servers here
pump out 3
> to 4 million email messages a month, >
> And I do wonder how much of that traffic could be avoided. A while
back I was
> looking at some statistics of some of the email lists, and it wasn't
uncommon
> to see 60 to 70 percent of the bits the list pushed out were just
yet another
> copy of something already sent.
> But of course, nothing is foolproof. There are folks that for some
unknown
> reason "edit their replies" by just removing the trailer lines, and
not doing
> anything to cull out what isn't needed in the rest of their replies.
Sad to say, I guess
> basic courtesy is just an unknown concept to some people.
>
> mjb.
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