Hi Dierk, >> I missed it, I joined this list about a month ago. > Luckily the archives are quite good. ;-)
Yes, I know they quite good. But I don't have the time now. > More or less the same as signing an ordinary letter or contract. Understand. I can understand that to sign a contract you need to proof the you are you with an ID card, or a passport or something. But do you show your passport every time you write a note to a friend? ;-) > Sometimes "Me, too" messages are needed especially on software > related lists, e.g. to identify bugs. Of course. I am not questioning the "Me too" messages, or its need, I used that as an example of short messages. >> - First you get the RFC-822 headers. > 1. We can't do anything against them. Right. But they do add to the footprint of the message, don't they? That's my point. > I like the (various) intros in messages, although I use the pure, > short, informational one only. I don't mind the intros themselves. Although I hardly really pay attention to any of them, some of them are funny. But they do add to the foot print also, don't they? > What about my use of snipped quoting? That's the way I think we all should do it. > BTW, threading doesn't come in here, I usually delete a message I've > read unless it is very important to me and I don't have any other > meaningful way of storing it but TB!'s message base. You should keep messages for a couple of weeks or so. You may not be interested in at first, but become interested as the _thread_ grows a couple of days afterwards. The you could easily follow the thread without having to go to the list archives. > Wrong. Communication is about much more than pure information. Yes, in a chat, or a general purpose forum, or at a bar while drinking a couple of beers. > I like those cookies by others, it tells me a lot about their > state of mind. Aren't most cookies just automatically and randomly inserted at the end of the message? >> Then comes the PGP signature, some times rather long, so I will >> know that it was you who wrote "Me too!" and that you did write "Me >> too!". Correct? > > Yes. Great. I got it then. I may not need as much reading as I thought. ;-) > Don't you think you are beginning to go overboard with a real point > you might have? My point, in case I didn't make it clear, is that everything in a message adds up to it's final footprint and not just secure signatures. And that all redundant and/or unnecessary "information" is, from my point of view, a waste. That is why I used the "Me too" as an example of how a very short "message" may end up with an un-proportional footprint, specially if you multiply it by the number of subscribers to this list. > see, that's why it sometimes is a good thing to "Me-too". I never said they weren't. See paragraph above. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial - Spain) Using The Bat! v1.53d ************************************************************** Scanned by MailScan Content-Security and Anti-Virus Software. Visit http://www.mwti.net for more info on eScan and MailScan. ************************************************************** -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
