Message no. 1

From:	the holy Entombed <rasputin@***.UMD.EDU>
Subject:	Long posts... (WAS: Re: ADMIN: Quoting previous messages)
Date:	Fri, 22 Jul 1994 00:18:05 -0400

On Thu, 21 Jul 1994, C. Paul Douglas wrote:

> Personally if I see one of those huge reposts I hit the delete key..Maybe
> I miss some goo stuff that way but I have other things to do with my time
> than spend 5 minutes trying to find the new one linner reply to a 15 page
> repost...What it means is the person that committed the offense simply
> wasted their time [in my case]...

Ah... a fellow member of the "I have no tolerance for windbags" club.

If I come up on a post where the first page is filled with text, and Mr.
PINE's "percentage shown thus far" count is under 40%, the "D" key is
as
good as hit.

I, too, feel I might be missing some beneficial material, but the good
stuff is usually repeated later anyway...


the homey Intoomed
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