Sometime Today, Vishal Doshi assembled some asciibets to say:
> www.dyndns.org or net or com.
[snip 51 lines of original text]
The original message was 51 lines long. Your reply was 1 line long. I
want to know:
- Are you too damn lazy to snip the original text and/or summarise
- Do you think we have nothing better to do than look through pages of
irrelevant text to see your one liners?
- Do you think bandwidth is a wastable commodity that you can send 400%
more data than you need to?
- Do you read top to bottom or mid to bottom and then top to mid? I know
most of us humans read top to bottom and don't like going back.
Here's a clip from Tom Christiansen. I figure you're too damn lazy to
read the whole thing when I post it:
Here's the issue: you appear to have quoted the entire message to which
you were replying. Worst of all, you have done so by merely appending
the complete message at the bottom. Folks are used to reading the
original material first, then the follow-up. That's why it's called a
"follow-up", you know. :-)
This is not the first or second or third time that you are doing this. It
seems that this is the only thing you do on this list. I know you send a
few good replies, but they are all overshadowed by this habit of yours.
Please change.
Philip
PS: Don't tell me you're surprised at how your single line message
generated a 32 line reply. In your case the q/r ratio is 51. In my case
it's 0.03125. The difference is 1632 units.
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