Alex: > Bandwidth is only an issue for the very few who still > connect to the Internet over dial-up. > Maybe so, but all data sits on hard drives in computers, somewhere - there is no data on a real cloud.
> Any of the images that get posted on here consume far more > bandwidth than the longest block of unsnipped text. There > may be reasons for snipping posts, but bandwidth is not > one of them. > My guess is that the images on FFL take up only a few megabytes, since there's not that any of them. In the old days, all the data on alt.m.t. used to fit on one single gigabyte drive- it's probably several terabytes by now. Snipping is a way to limit redundant data storage for fast and easy search retrieval. We just don't need four copies of a single long post when the only comment was a three word test and a 'not' test. That's what I'm saying. > > ...I don't really understand what that means and why it > > is a bad thing. This is still not a test. GF!
