[Vision2020] Internet Etiquette on Public Archived List Serves

[Ted Moffett]

Dale et. al.

I'm not sure how this happened, but my vision2020 post you referenced 
yesterday, and claimed was 34 K, was only 22 K in my Hotmail inbox.  Perhaps 
there is some error in how you are figuring e-mail size?

If my posts averaged 13.4 K, which I question, this was not due to my use of 
HTML intensive e-mail.  The 38 K post I suggested you could have made 
smaller was HTML intensive in a manner that could have been avoided and 
still communicated your well thought out points.  Consider that my reply 
that included all the text of your post, with my text added, was only 22 K.  
This was my point, as I stated.

I only brought up the 1.5 meg graph that shut down my e-mail account to 
illustrate to Bruce L. why it is wise when possible to keep messages sent to 
a public internet list serve as small as will allow the appropriate 
communication.  If Bruce had not appeared puzzled as to why it is wise to 
keep public list serve messages as small a size as is practical, I would not 
have brought this up.

I am sorry.

Of course you are free to do what you wish on this un-moderated list serve,
including ignore my suggestions, if you think they are ground less, rather 
than playing a game of one one-upmanship by researching and comparing 
average post size on vision2020.

If you did not want to get into a contest, as you stated, you would have not 
done this comparison of post size!  This is like the man who says I don't 
want to fight, then launches a sucker punch!

I concede at once without even checking.  Your vision2020 posts are smaller 
than mine!

Unless someone else continues this discussion, I will consider it closed.  I 
have made the point I wished to make.

This is my third vision2020 post today, and following the suggestions of 
some on vision2020, I have exceeded my post allotment for the day.

I guess I must apologize again!

Ted






>From: "Dale Courtney" <dale@courtneys.us>
>To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Internet Etiquette on Public Archived List Serves
>Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:02:55 -0700
>
> > No stone knives and bearskins are advocated.
> >
> > Tom Hansen's suggestion that Dale get his own storage where
> > he can make
> > available large files via a link on vision2020 seems
> > reasonable to me.
>
>That had been done from day #1 when I was on the list.
>
> > One
> > of Dale's graphs posted on vision2020 was a whopping 1.5
> > megs, though Dale
> > said this was a mistake.
>
>There's a line from the Princess Bride: "Thank you so much for brining that
>up. Why don't you give me a nice paper cut and pour lemon juice in it while
>you're at it.
>
>That was an accident, a one-time mistake. I apologize again.
>
>All my graphs are physically located on my webserver and are only linked 
>and
>displayed from the recipient's machine. They are not downloaded onto your
>machines at all.
>
>If you would look back at my posts, you will see that they are across the
>board smaller than nearly everyone else's posts. I go out of my way to
>ensure that my posts are small.
>
>I really don't want to get into a contest about this, but my posts averaged
>a whopping 12.7kb last month; yours averaged 13.4 kb. This is really a
>ridiculous conversation.
>
>Hope this answers your questions. Personally, I'm not interested in going
>back to pre-1996 Email format.
>
>Best,
>Dale
>
>
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