[nylug-talk] [Offtopic] OpenSolaris meeting 6pm Wednesday, February 20th

[Ron Guerin]

Michael Bacarella wrote:
>>>> Please trim the original message a lot when just posting 1-2 lines of
>>>> response.
>>> Can these rules be re-evaluated?  It's 2008.  Bandwidth is nearly as
>>> free as air.
>> I could care less about bandwidth. It's how far I have to scroll to
>> read one line. It's just not necessary.
> 
> Doesn't complaining about it even once consume more time than all of the time
> you'll ever spend in your entire life scrolling?

No, what happens is people stop reading the list because of it, thus 
solving the trimming problem and their desire to complain about it in 
one fell swoop, something we'd like to prevent.

I confess right here and now, I do it too.  If I have to go on a search 
mission to find the content in a message, of if I've gotta scroll back 
and forth because the new content is all at the top or all at the 
bottom, I frequently just don't read it.  Unlike others however, I'm not 
going to unsub because of it.

Aside: Are you no longer reading the list on a mobile?  You're the last 
guy I expected to see arguing against trimming.  Scrolling mobiles can 
be unfun.

- Ron