| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth) |
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| Subject: | [GridSec] Spoiler space & quoting only the relevant bits |
| Date: | Mon Feb 18 05:30:02 2002 |
> >Thanks for deleting the spoiler space... NOT!!!!
>
> But I also thought that we were told to only quote the relevant part
> of the message! Oh well.
Yes, you were, but spoiler space is relevant -- it keeps those who
shouldn't read the rest of the message, from reading the rest of the
message. However, if you think the spoiler space is getting excessive (I'd
say that's when it's more than double-quoted) you could always remove it
and put in a new bunch of empty lines.
The reason we ask (tell?) everyone to only quote the relevant parts of a
message is because that way the post is easier to follow, and it also
wastes less bandwidth/memory. Spoiler space, though, does not take much
memory because it only consists of a bunch of line feeds, which are just
one character (one byte) each. That means that twenty lines of spoiler
space take up less memory than this whole sentence does...
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