> To be fair, I understood enough to pick up that he doesn't know what he
> is talking about.
That's as far as I got.
Thanks Dave, I didn't have it in my heart to argue with a donkey.
On 6/29/07, David Lieb <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the info, Ed. However I ran what you wrote through Babel
> > Fish but it couldn't identify the language and translate into English.
> > ;-) Undoubtedly YOU understood what you wrote, but I submit that no
> > one else did....
>
> To be fair, I understood enough to pick up that he doesn't know what he
> is talking about. Yes, ED, it does involve bandwidth. Given the number of
> lists that Mark hosts, total bandwidth of messages both in and out is a
> factor of life. Bandwidth costs money and he has to maintain a balance
> between service and affordability. Part of that is NOT allowing attachments.
> Sure it would be nice to swap pictures, but it is in no way essential; we
> have lots of ways around that with the current free image-hosting sites out
> there and Ed. Another part of it is limiting the size of each message. Since
> the messages are text-only, a 4k message says everything a body needs to say
> unless trying to report on the Buster Cluster or getting stuck in sugar
> sand. Any message that exceeds the size limit gets tossed into the bit
> bucket to wait for divine intervention; or Mark, whichever comes first. Yes,
> the weak link is Mark having time to look through the messages collected
> there and manually decide whether to send them on through or ditch them.
> What a pain for Mark! Of course, this is on top of going through all the
> messages and deciding which ones have sufficient Spridget content to justify
> sending them on to the moderated list.
>
> I have been on this list a fair number of years, but I have never gotten one
> of those messsages. I guess I have to try harder. As Flash said, trim down
> the amount of the message that you are quoting.
> David Lieb
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