AVR-Chat

OK, I am sorry if this offends anyone, and I apologize to Kat for 
usurping her authority as list owner, but I
am growing weary of the excessive noise on the list.

   I refer not to the relatively few (and usually interesting, at least) 
off topic threads, but the the lack of editting on the parts of so many 
of the participants.

  It is neither NECESSARY nor DESIREABLE  to include **EVERY** line of 
the message to which you are
replying in your reply.  PARTICULARLY when you are replying to a thread 
with many, many previous messages.

   Learn to edit, people!  Redact superfluous information, and eliminate 
repetitive re;posting of "relevant"
information.  If you have been following a thread, and you see that the 
same paragraphs/sentences have already
been copied and reposted many times, ELIMINATE them from your response.  
We've all seen them severasl
times, and don't need to see them again. 

   Not only is this wasting network bandwidth (and uyes, the backbones 
ARE straining under the current traffic
loads), it wastes space and time for the individual users, when 
repetitive, and esecially repetitive USELESS
information is reposted and reposted, ad nauseum.  In particular, there 
is absolutely NO need to repost
all the Yahoo Groups crap at th e bottom of each message, when quoting 
from another participant.  All that
extraneous data clogs up the disk space of the participants, as well.

\rantmode off

Tom Keller