I agree with you in principle, but there are exceptions. Sorry you had to waste bandwidth.
John On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:38:36 -0000, John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 10:30:41AM -0000, John Forbes wrote: >> I am sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings: >> >> http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aj9runQF0f_4&refer=japan >> >> http://tinyurl.com/wpvss >> >> If Pentax keeps going like this, we'll have to go back to discussing >> pictures. > > > Why do people insist on posting coy messages, complete with web > links, with absolutely no hint of the subject? > > This means you have to click on a link, and wait for a page to > load, just to get a piece of information that might (or might > not) be of interest. > > Including a simple summary such as "Pentax shares up 8%" in the > message (or even, perhaps, in the subject line?) would be a > courtesy to other readers of this list, especially those who > are not on infinite-bandwidth broadband connections. > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net

