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On 14/02/10 19:02, Dotan Cohen wrote:
On 14 February 2010 09:52, Basil Chupin <> wrote:

Dotan, you are doing what some others are/have been doing when replying
to posts: who the hell *ARE *you replying to?

Who wrote the post you are replying to? Why can't your mail client show
the original poster so that one can see who said what to whom?


Some people have complained about posting with their email addresses
intact. I was too lazy to just edit the email address, so I removed
the entire credit line. I'll not be lazy in the future.


Ce`?

The only complaints I have read (besides my own complaints :-) re
above) is about over-long SIGNATURES (taglines) at the end of posts.

The complaint about over-long taglines/signatures goes way to when the
Usenet and AARNet started and Fidonet began. In Fidonet, each Sysop who
ran a BBS had to pay out of his own pocket the 'phone call charges to
collect the 'mail' for his/her BBS (Bulletin Board Service). In many
cases this involved making long-distance telephone calls and calls often
involved calling an oversea BBS "distribution" BBS. Such costs where not
insignificant - I can tell you! (I ran 3 BBSs.)

The messages - depending on the system - were transmitted "as they
were", and the fastest modems at around that time ranged from, say,
300bps to 9600bps. Picking up a MB worth of messages at these speeds,
and paying long distance call charges, was not a lot of fun.

Having messages posted by users of BBS which contained unnecessary crap
were not taken kindly by a Sysop (who paid the 'phone charges), and the
Fidonet "ethical" rules re messages also covered this aspect of posting
messages: do not have stooopid, long-winded, signature/taglines and
always pruned your messages to only quote what you were replying to.

These rules have been now carried over by the 'oldies' to what is
happening on the Internet.

Personally I do not have any problems with this because a waste of
resources (by clogging up a system) is a waste of resources. And someone
has to pay for the wasted resources......

BUT, not having the name of the poster at the start of a message to
which one is replying is simply just a NO-NO. Simply, "Just not cricket,
ol' boy!" :-)

BC


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