On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, The Fool wrote:
> > From: Baardwijk, J. van DTO/SLBD/BGM/SVM/SGM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Van: Ronn Blankenship
> > >
> > > Friday Sept. 21, 2001; 8:59 a.m. EDT
> > >
> > > Rumsfeld: Nukes Not Considered for Terrorist Retaliation
> >
> > Ronn (and others), please do NOT post entire articles here if they are
> > already available on the WWW. Only post the URL; not everybody on this
> list
> > has a toll-free number for their dial-up access, or a 24/7 broadband
> > connection. Some us have to pay the phone company for every second they
> are
> > on-line; posting entire articles only leads to waste of bandwidth, more
> time
> > needed to download e-mail or read e-mail online, and a higher phone
> bill.
>
> I would like to point out that unless a message is VERY long (>12k) the
> amount of time to download it almost negligible--Fractions of a second.
> It will not appreciably change your phone bill.
We have guidelines for that sort of thing, which from the sounds of it
need to be re-posted; the rule of thumb is that if something is over 10K,
post a URL and a short description of it. The post that Jeroen was
responding to was of a reasonable length by this rule of thumb, so I'm not
sure why he's complaining about this one in particular. The Netanyahu
speech was over 20K, so that probably should have just had a link posted.
So, folks, if it's over 10K, try to post a link. If you're not sure how
long it is, send it to someone else willing to tell you how big it is
before you post it.
If it's a pain to send an article to people requesting it off-list, I can,
most days, offer to receive AT THIS PARTICULAR E-MAIL ADDRESS any long
articles (as long as they're not HTML formatted) to be sent to anyone
requesting it off-list (and the requests would have to be made to this
e-mail address, and would be honored as often as I had time to check this
account and pass along stuff to anyone who'd made a request since the last
time I checked it). The environment in which I read and send e-mail for
*this* account is much better suited to doing such a thing than the
environment in which I read and send e-mail for any of my other e-mail
accounts.
I guess it's time to repost ALL instructions and guidelines. I will try
to do so later today.
Julia
