John -
MIT's Project MAC and other campus networks that were later
interconnected with DARPAnet: Treat bandwidth and readers' time as
valuable; edit messages for context and reply on-point. Still seems
like a nice idea to me.
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I came to the Internet late. Started out on BBS nets, including FIDOnet.
BBS messaging required trimming quotes for the sake of sysops' phone
bills. I remember one multi-net sysop saying his phone bills were $500 a
month even at overnight rates. We usually used the intersperse quote/new
material method.
Carolyn Stoffel
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