Re: Space travel by humans is not possible now

"Fred J. McCall" <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OM <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:2) DO NOT QUOTE ENTIRE LONG POSTS! Trim them to conserve bandwidth.
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The whole 'bandwidth' whine was a strawman argument even back in the
day of slow links.

Bull. Having managed an NNTP server, smaller posts were always preferred.


All of Usenet is a vanishingly small part of what is typically
consuming 'bandwidth' these days.

It is for those who are actually READING it.

In any event, it's also a time waster to have to try to scroll through long
posts to see 2 lines at the bottom. If people have something they think is
important to say, it makes little sense to make it HARDER for the reader
read it.




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man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
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