Flame On!

[Darrell Norquay]

At 09:59 PM 9/28/96 -0700, Talltom wrote a few line reply with 10 attached
messages that have absolutely nothing to do with the reply...

Already read em', trashed 'em, don't wanna read 'em all 15 times over
searching for the meat of the message 'cause everybody is too lazy to delete
all the irrelevant crap from their replies.

This is just a very small flame, don't take it personal, long Tom, you were
just the last guilty party, but by far not the only one.  Seems that the
people who get the digest version of the list are the worst, cause they
receive this stuff all in one lump, they think it's ok to send it all back
again in one lump.  Then the next guy adds his 2 bits worth, and does it
again, ad infinitum, ad nauseum. Think of all that pristine, virgin
bandwidth that could be carrying something useful, going to waste sending
the same dull sh#t over and over again...  Not to mention that some poor
slob's hard disk somewhere has 367 copies of the same message in various
incarnations stored on it for future reference.

That's why Billy G. invented editors, so's you can delete all the irrelevant
crap.  Puhleeze! don't reply to this and waste more bandwidth, just keep it
in mind next time you do reply, and show *some* awareness of netiquette...

Flame Off!
regards
dn
dnorquay at awinc.com