At 02:57 AM 5/18/99 -0500, G. Marc Turner wrote in part:
>I stand corrected...I made a mistake...I was just flat out wrong...
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>HOWEVER, the messages appear to be longer than ever before. The average
>message size has gradually increased over the years. This measure was
>calculated by taking the size of the archive file in kilobytes and dividing
>by the number of messages posted. It's a crude measure, but it is kind of
>interesting. Perhaps as people have become more familiar with email, and
>email has become a more standard means of communicating, we're willing to
>type longer messages...
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No empirical data have I; however, I think one of the contributing factors
to the length of messages is that some people insist on including every bit
(binary, that is) of every message to which they respond and sometimes I
have to scroll through many, many lines before I get to the new
information. Perhaps everyone could edit the messages they send to the
list to include only the most pertinent information. If your mail program
doesn't allow you to do that, there are excellent FREE mail programs that
do, Eudora and Pegasus to mention only two.
Bob W.
