Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: sean jamieson elf61@*******.com
Subject: length of messages
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 11:29:52 PST
could you people please stop adding all the original message? i only
have so much room on a hotmail account(plus it takes a while to filter
through) thanks





ciao



______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Message no. 2
From: Tim Kerby drekhead@***.net
Subject: length of messages
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:49:41 -0500
At 3/3/99 11:29:00 AM, you wrote:

>could you people please stop adding all the original message? i only
>have so much room on a hotmail account(plus it takes a while to filter
>through) thanks

I would agree that adding all of the original message is bad, but everyone should
certainly add at least a relevant portion of the original message, so everyone knows
what is being replied to.

This is covered in the FAQ.

--
================================================================ - Tim Kerby -
drekhead@***.net - ICQ-UIN 2883757 -
-----------------------------------------------------------------
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity;
and I'm not sure about the the universe." -Albert Einstein
Message no. 3
From: Scott Wheelock iscottw@*****.nb.ca
Subject: length of messages
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 03:18:29 -0400
"And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to sean jamieson."
] could you people please stop adding all the original message? i only
] have so much room on a hotmail account(plus it takes a while to filter
] through) thanks

I had a yahoo account for a while, and it was getting everything
just fine. 'Course, I deleted 99% of the messages after I read 'em.

Scott
Message no. 4
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: length of messages
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:57:45 +0100
According to sean jamieson, at 11:29 on 3 Mar 99, the word on
the street was...

> could you people please stop adding all the original message? i only
> have so much room on a hotmail account(plus it takes a while to filter
> through) thanks

The reason mailers allow quoting original messages is because that will
make it _much_ easier for the recipient to understand what's going on. On
a list like ShadowRN, where you can get anywhere between 50 and 200 posts
a day about all kinds of different subjects, quoting is just about a
_necessity_ if you want to keep sane.

It would be much appreciated if you could do the same thing, for the
reasons I just explained. If you have limited space at your provider, you
can do several things -- for example, check your mail more often; delete
all messages except those you absolutely want to keep (and those you
should be able to save, download to your computer at home, and erase); get
a POP3 account somewhere; or open an account that provides more space for
email.

(This message was sent to the list on purpose, for others with the same
problem/view as Sean.)

--
Gurth@******.nl, ShadowRN GridSec: Enforcer Division
The ShadowRN FAQ: http://shadowrun.html.com/hlair/
The NERPS FAQ: http://shadowrun.html.com/nerps/
Other GridSec members: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.carl.org>
Dvixen <dvixen@********.com>
Tim Kerby <drekhead@***.net>
List Administrator: Adam Jury <adamj@*********.html.com>
List Owner: Mark Imbriaco <mark.imbriaco@*****.com>
Message no. 5
From: Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject: length of messages
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 08:58:07 +1000
Gurth writes:
> It would be much appreciated if you could do the same thing, for the
> reasons I just explained. If you have limited space at your provider, you
> can do several things -- for example, check your mail more often; delete
> all messages except those you absolutely want to keep (and those you
> should be able to save, download to your computer at home, and
> erase); get
> a POP3 account somewhere; or open an account that provides more space for
> email.

Actually, the single best thing you can do to save _space_ is to get the
list in digest form. Each message has at the front of it a fairly large
header, which you won't see unless you poke around. This header is saved in
the message, and it takes up a large amount of space when you get the mail
in bulk, like this list generates.

If you only check email once a day, getting the digest version will probably
save you about 20% of the disk space.

(Of course, digest version is harder to read, and not as convienent to reply
to (well, not in Unix, under ELM, with a suitable filter, but in general))

--
.sig deleted to conserve electrons. robert.watkins@******.com
Message no. 6
From: Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject: length of messages
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1999 09:02:35 +1000
Oh, the one thing people on this list CAN do to help reduce the amount of
space mail from this list consumes is stop using those 20 line signatures,
especially for a one-line post.

--
.sig deleted to conserve electrons. robert.watkins@******.com
Message no. 7
From: Protokol13 Protokol13@********.com
Subject: length of messages
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 17:28:56 -0500
Robert Watkins wrote:

>Oh, the one thing people on this list CAN do to help reduce the amount of
>space mail from this list consumes is stop using those 20 line signatures,
>especially for a one-line post.

Shoot! I guess I'll have to get rid of the AVI movie clip of my name at the
end of my messages :P
--
-=PrOtoKol13=-

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about length of messages, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.

Thwap!