On Thu, 23 May 2002, Kerry Hoath wrote: > I am asking all people who continue the "Why Windows" "Interesting experiment" > and similar threads to start trimming down their mails to the list... Amen to that, I have to hold -c-k in pico for about 10 secs to get rid of some extraneous stuff <snip> > If this trend continues I will be forced to unsubscribe from speakup > purely due to the raw volume of quoted text that has appeared on > this list in the last 2 weeks. No, don't do that! You have a lot of useful and insightful things to say, I rarely skip your posts, even if they're on a thread I am not currently reading, purely because they tend to have informational value. People, come on, let's not loose a valuable resource due to idleness! > I could filter all of his messages, but Greg and others are also > adding 3 lines to the top of a post and hitting send. > I am not picking on one person, > but pleeding for some moderation in the raw size of messages > to this list. You know, it's a shame that this isn't a newsgroup, you could kill on the Lines header. > Please people, I don't care what text editor you use, ed vi emacs > edlin or dos edit, can we trim the fat? You forgot one, Outlook/Outlook Express, that's where the "Original message ..." comes from. Cheers. -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
