Quoting extra text is good for the economy. Extra text means extra bandwidth, extra bandwidth means the ISP needs to get more fibers, which means the fiber factory can sell more! Also extra fibers means extra equipment, that's good for company's like Cisco and 3comm!
So, don't stop quoting, and perhaps even better, each time just quote some extra random text! .... -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Roman Hatsiev Verzonden: Saturday, February 16, 2008 12:45 PM Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [hlds] Quoting Habits So you want all people posting to this list to be bound by some artificial rules which won't do any good to them just to make your reading of digest more comfortable? Don't you think this is a bit odd? On Feb 16, 2008 2:30 PM, Don Redhorse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Evolution allows for marking the text to be quoted. And I also use my > phone to read this stuff when I'm on the road. > > But I guess it is to complicated and too much work for people to trim > down messages. > > This behavior is typical nowadays.. why should I do something if the > other people could do something. > > Problem is that sometimes other people can't do something about it. I > can't switch from digest to normal mail as I would get to many mails. > And the problem is not only the scrolling through 100 lines of triple > quotes but also the amount of data. > > In the old days there was some like quoting etiquette but nowadays > people are mainly selfish... this has come with unlimited bandwith and > data volumes and the fact that in the old days mainly people who did > know what they were doing were using forums (mainly bulletin boards at > that time) and mailing lists. > > I like that this list isn't moderated like the forums from valve because > some of the forum rules are stupid or a very gray area but sometimes I > would wish that that would be at least some rules people would stick > too. > > Most official mailing lists have some rules about quoting, also because > those mailing lists are normally archived. > > And before somebody complains that I quoted the full message... I quoted > only the original message, not anything beneath it, I didn't quote the > rest of the digest I receive and I did change the subject. > > And now ask yourself the question why I did do that... For me? No, it > means more work, I did it as courtesy for the others. > > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 09:48 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > Message: 3 > > Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:19:52 -0500 > > From: "1nsane ." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [hlds] Quoting Habits > > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > > -- > > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] > > Gmail automagically hides the quoted text. Surely if it's such a big > > problem > > some of you could invest into an email application that does the same. > > > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.20.6/1282 - Release Date: 2/15/2008 7:08 PM _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
