----------------------------------------------------- note: thomas - this isnt personal. you're just the unlucky bugger who said it.
Could you mark your posts with [RANT] if you are going off on one?
Todays complete discussion about putting FTP in the subject line has already been finished 55 minutes ago.
woah just a moment. who died and made you the keeper of the worldtime? some people wouldnt even see the msg on the digest yet, and everybody, even if they're ranting, deserves to have their say. this aint a moderated list, and this aint your or anybody except lazlo's list. if he comes in and says its over, then fine he's the boss. but until then everybody can say whatever they like, at whatever time of day or night they like. please remember the list is global, and doesnt run on your clock. ----------------------------------------------------- stuey> stuey>clearly it does, and also it obviously requires a genius to stuey>a) post in plain text and not HTML and stuey>b) delete irrelevant quoted text and not just reply stuey> leaving everything in. unfortunetly, the youngsters these days pass an a+ test and think thats all they need to know about computers and netiquette. and they cant even flame properly either. i really think the only way some of them will get a clue is if we force feed them the collected printouts of the usenet archives :( stuey> A few lines of text in the RM Stringer original was stuey>26K, after a couple of Stuart Bruce and RMStringer replies stuey> this had gone up to 40K. What a ******* waste of bandwidth and if we could get rid of the html, think how much better it'd be. i've previously tried every trick i could to get rid of hmtl, and short of filtering all email through programs i shouldnt have to set up, i cant determine how to do it. i've contented myself by making curses on posters and their children and their childrens children every time they post. ----------------------------------------------------- stuart>Although to be fair, since that argument flared up a stuart>couple of weeks ago, you've posted about a dozen stuart>FTP messages to the list, and you've forgotten every stuart>time... thankfully someones said it. i've been trying to be polite about it, but as we've worked out understanding netiquette must make some of us mensa members. who'd have thought that one day i'd qualify as a genius *L* ----------------------------------------------------- bah! i come home from work nice and happy and now the list is full of noise again all because someone cant remember to put [ftbloddyp] in his subject line. i hope you're enjoying this. typing 5 chars would have saved 144?k. if you culled the html, it would only have been 51k.