On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Jerrad Pierce wrote:
> Yeah that was it....
>
> But you could probably even use Memoize for somehting like this?
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Peter Haworth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >To: Jerrad Pierce; 'Neil Conway'; ModPerl List
[Loads of useless quotes snipped]
Hey,
Sending a 3.5KB message to write two misspelled lines are a %@$%$
waste. Those 3.5KB goes to ~1500 people.
That is 5.5MB bandwidth, much via slow modems.
That is 5.5MB storage in mail spools around the world. Just to move
less than 100 bytes worth of content.
What a waste.
And even worse: if we assume each recipient spends just 10 seconds on
figuring out that this badly quoted message wasn't worth reading
before moving on, then that's more than 4 hours! Imagine how much
useful work that could have been done on mod_perl or some other tool
we all use in 4 hours.
What an awful waste.
So before you press that send button, think twice. At least.
- Have what you are going to say been said before?
- Did you strip any unnecessary quotes?
- Did you check your message for typos and for readability? (not to
discourage non-native writers of English like myself, but everyone
should be able to do a minimum of proofreading and "layout" of
their mail).
- Is it really important enough to take a minimum of 4 hours of
other people's time?
- Are you sure?
Sending useless, badly quoted mail is a horribly waste of time and
this list is way beyond where it only matters a little. It matters a
lot here. Make yourself look better, think before posting. Help
making this list higher quality again.
If I keep seeing those badly quoted mails I'll start using a filter to
reject the worst crap so it won't get sent here. But that would be a
waste of my time, wouldn't it?
- ask
ps. no offense to Jerrad and Peter, you were just the ones to trigger
me; I'm sure there are others who are as bad as you. Or whatever.
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