Re: Space travel by humans is not possible now

"Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:"Fred J. McCall" <fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
:news:f1jip39uj3nn4cmbkd4nf335tmlfp2ttre@xxxxxxxxxx
:> OM <om@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> :
:> :2) DO NOT QUOTE ENTIRE LONG POSTS! Trim them to conserve bandwidth.
:> :
:>
:> 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.
:

You talk like you're the only one who's ever done this. If big Usenet
posts to non-binary groups were a problem on your NNTP server, I'd
suggest you had SEVERE technical problems.

:>
:> 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.
:

READING isn't 'bandwidth', you silly git.

: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.
:

Do what most people do.

1) Get a newsreader that colour-codes things so the 'new' bits are
easy to pick out.

2) If there's too much 'quote' and not enough 'new', hit the 'N'
key...


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"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
territory."
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