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

[Peter C. Norton]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:36:53PM -0500, 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?

I think you're focusing on the wrong question. The question, as I see
it, is "do you want people to read your messages". The majority of the
posts here are for people to read and comment on. Eventually people
care what you think and write because you've written things that
matter. That's why a lot of people keep subscribed to this list,
right?

Anyway, underlying most of the rules for the list is to please
consider the time of the other people on the list, and their
respective sanity (sanities?). We want nylug-talk to have interesting
things, not to be a workout for everyones scroll/pagedown/spacebar
fingers.

-Peter

P.S. Obv not directing any of this at Michael specifically, just the
general "you".

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