On 14/02/10 19:02, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 14 February 2010 09:52, Basil Chupin <> wrote:
Dotan, you are doing what some others are/have been doing when replying to posts: who the hell *ARE *you replying to?
Who wrote the post you are replying to? Why can't your mail client show the original poster so that one can see who said what to whom?
Some people have complained about posting with their email addresses intact. I was too lazy to just edit the email address, so I removed the entire credit line. I'll not be lazy in the future.
Ce`? The only complaints I have read (besides my own complaints :-) re above) is about over-long SIGNATURES (taglines) at the end of posts. The complaint about over-long taglines/signatures goes way to when the Usenet and AARNet started and Fidonet began. In Fidonet, each Sysop who ran a BBS had to pay out of his own pocket the 'phone call charges to collect the 'mail' for his/her BBS (Bulletin Board Service). In many cases this involved making long-distance telephone calls and calls often involved calling an oversea BBS "distribution" BBS. Such costs where not insignificant - I can tell you! (I ran 3 BBSs.) The messages - depending on the system - were transmitted "as they were", and the fastest modems at around that time ranged from, say, 300bps to 9600bps. Picking up a MB worth of messages at these speeds, and paying long distance call charges, was not a lot of fun. Having messages posted by users of BBS which contained unnecessary crap were not taken kindly by a Sysop (who paid the 'phone charges), and the Fidonet "ethical" rules re messages also covered this aspect of posting messages: do not have stooopid, long-winded, signature/taglines and always pruned your messages to only quote what you were replying to. These rules have been now carried over by the 'oldies' to what is happening on the Internet. Personally I do not have any problems with this because a waste of resources (by clogging up a system) is a waste of resources. And someone has to pay for the wasted resources...... BUT, not having the name of the poster at the start of a message to which one is replying is simply just a NO-NO. Simply, "Just not cricket, ol' boy!" :-) BC -- "If it weren't for electricity we'd be all watching televion by candlelight." George Gobel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org