Re: Wasted BW

[C1J1Miller@aol.com]

Frank J. Bauer wrote:
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>>At 10:05 PM 4/23/99 GMT, Phil Payne wrote:
>>Total received:              1787
>>Preamble headers:            1495
>>Content:                       80
>>.sig:                         190
>>Omitting the marginal usefulness of the .sig (and it _is_ sometimes
>>useful) less than 4.5% of what I paid to download was content.

<since you are the only list member i know of who has complained about cost
<per byte, perhaps you could put some perspective on the problem by giving
<us an idea of the actual costs involved.
<i'm guessing that with terse headers/sigs and reasonable use of quoted
<content, you would save no more than 100k/day.
<(about as big as a small-to-medium-sized jpeg...)
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I don't think it's just an issue of cost per person.  I'm on several lists; 
get the quattro list via digest.  Untrimmed posts and quoted headers, sig 
lines that include jokes etc. that I've read 100 times, HTML, 
attachments.......... they seem to waste a lot of my time and energy.  
Remember that we're currently 1200 plus people (plus those who browse the 
list archives) and that's a lot of waste.
Dan's always had suggested rules, mostly for courtesy:  put attachments on a 
web site and post the URL; trim posts; don't reply while quoting the entire 
digest; keep it civil or take it private, etc.
I do like sigs that include car info (year, model, miles, etc.) as well as 
where you're located (especially when you're selling a car!).
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