On Wed 1999-03-24 (10:33), Adam D. McKenna wrote:
> From: Julian L.C. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> :
> : >Noooooo!!!!!!! People who are ignorant enough to send mail to the
> : >whole list are usually too ignorant to actually *read* the messages to
> : >find out how to get off the list. It's just a waste of bandwidth and
> : >screen space.
> :
> : I don't mean to sound like a prick but what a silly argument. 1) A waste
> : of bandwidth? 2 additional lines is really not a waste of bandwidth. 2)
> : Screen space? 2 Lines (unless in 320x200) is not a lot of screen space -
> : either.
>
> it's not just 2 lines. It's 2 lines x # of subscribers x messages per day.
> Assuming a "line" is 40 characters, there are 1000 subscribers, and 50
> messages per day, that's 4 megabytes per day extra.
Dan has an interesting sarcastic doc about saving bandwidth :-)
See:
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/sarcasm/modest-proposal.txt
-- Keith
> --Adam
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