[urq] Re: DIY aluminum wheels refinishing

[Mark J. Besso]

Brett,

To be completely fair, your request for trimming messages wasn't 
out-of-line.  You're wording in that message reads as quite rude and a bit 
of an attack.  Maybe Eric's response wasn't any kinder, but I'll bet he 
echoed the sentiments of many listers.

Try asking politely, rather than insulting and ordering, and you'll probably 
get the results you're looking for.  Some people are never going to trim 
their messages.  Oh well.  That's too bad.  Some will and that's good for 
all of us if, for no other reason, it makes reading their message a lot 
easier.

My 0.02¢,
Mark


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brett Dikeman"
Subject: Re: [urq] Re: DIY aluminum wheels refinishing


> On May 6, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Eric Sanborn wrote:
>>
>> Brett climb down off your high horse.  You might get a nose bleed.
>>
> I have to say I've always found it ironic that listers, claiming (or 
> acting like) a reminder is a personal attack- respond with personal 
> insults.
>
> Audifans has rules which have not changed for years, based off common 
> internet email and newsgroup etiquette and experience.  Please  explain 
> how being reminded to follow those rules, on a site which is  free and run 
> by volunteer efforts- constitutes arrogance?  Further,  explain to me how 
> ignoring rules, arguing when asked to follow them,  and inferring you know 
> better than people who have been doing this  for a decade- does not 
> constitute arrogance?
>
>> If you are so strapped for space why don't you ask for donations?
>
> Digests, which are supposed to go out daily, also have a size limit-  and 
> long messages will trigger extra digests unnecessarily if those  messages 
> were long simply because people kept quoting pages of past  emails.  It's 
> not just our bandwidth (which is donated, and will  cease to be if 
> Audifans makes a nuisance of itself), but that of  readers- not everyone 
> has a cablemodem.  It's not just physical disk  limitations- not trimming 
> replies makes effective indexing more  difficult, polluting search 
> results.
>
> Brett