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[quk@sievers.com (Phil Payne)]

OK, yooz guyz - a request.

I've deliberately left this one a day or to - to let the trail go cold.

But I want to have a moan, on behalf of those who pay dearly for their 
Internet access, about "quoting".

I got a "Hurrah!  Yeah!" message last week about US membership of the UK club.  
There was nothing inappropriate about the intent or the content.  But the form 
was a reply to an old message listing _all_ of the putative US members.

14863 bytes, just to read: "OK, great, thanks."

Now - I don't want to throw cold water on one of the most energetic and vibrant 
special interest groups on the Internet.  This group _proves_ that this medium 
works.

But guys - when you reply to a message - please spare a thought for those of us 
whose local phone charges, compared with the free calls often available in the 
USA, equate to a small country's defence budget.  Downloading 14k costs me 5c 
or so - a few dozen a day is, slowly, _real_ money.

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 Phil Payne
 phil@sievers.com
 Committee Member, UK Audi [ur-]quattro Owners Club