On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 15:12:13 PM -0400, Chad Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
> Marco,
>
> Email traffic - unsnipped posts, unwrapped posts - none of this
> really matters to most people.
Yes, good manners are scarce nowadays.
> Most people have hundreds of megabytes of online storage for their
> email - regardless of the state of their personal hardware.
So what? As Ian immediately pointed out, it is a huge waste of time,
bandwidth and CPU even for the servers and pipes which have to process
thousands of these unneeded. And for the search engines which must
process and often return many almost identical copies of the same
thing. And for all the users of those engines. Before it ever gets to
me.
> people use email clients, or web-based email interface, that
> automatically wraps text for them. Most people delete emails that
> they do not wish to read.
Have you *understood* what I was complaining about? I continuously
delete whole threads without reading one single message of them. This
is when I want to follow some threads, and only *AFTER* I have opened
the messages it becomes evident that they were duplicates.
> All it does is create the very traffic and wasted bandwidth that you
> so desperately wish to stop.
My foot. I have sent *one* short, clear, polite request after 12/15
messages like this in one week. If you generate further traffic
because you didn't get it is not my fault.
>People who have such limited resources (pay-per-bit downloads, less
>than a Gig of HD space, 2 megs of RAM, whatever), should *NOT*
>subscribe to a mailing list of this magnatude.
Excellent. "Open Source is about community"... but only for those who
can afford the cost of their bad manners. Excellent indeed.
Ciao,
Marco
PS: nothing above is an attack to Peter and the others who in good
faith devotes a lot of his time to help unsubscribed users. I simply
asked politely to not resend messages to the list when they help such
users.
--
Marco Fioretti mfioretti, at the server mclink.it
Fedora Core 3 for low memory http://www.rule-project.org/
Non si puo' campare con le idee che fanno la coda nel cervello, senza
riuscire a uscirne, altrimenti sono talmente strette che si prendono a
gomitate facendoti venire il mal di testa. F.F., luglio 2005.
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