At 09:57 24-9-01 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote:
> > 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.
It was not about that one in particular, it just happened to be the first
of three such posts (all from Ronn, BTW). I even considered replying to the
other two messages with the exact same comment, but then decided that
posting it once should be enough to get the message across.
>I guess it's time to repost ALL instructions and guidelines. I will try
>to do so later today.
In the spirit of this thread (and to save Julia the trouble of reposting
said documents), allow me to not post the whole thing, but give the URL's:
Administrative FAQ:
http://www.geocities.com/jeroenvb.geo/adminfaq.html
Etiquette Guidelines:
http://www.geocities.com/jeroenvb/guidelines.html
Jeroen
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