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:2) DO NOT QUOTE ENTIRE LONG POSTS!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.

Way back it was an issue. When I was reading news across a 300, or even
1200, baud modem connection, bandwidth was an issue. It took time to
download a screen's worth of text.

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

Quoting an entire posting, when it's not necessary, still doesn't make much
sense. Today, that's because it's easy enough to go back to the original of
the quoted message if you want to read the entire original posting. Quoting
an entire posting forces readers to scroll down more than necessary, which
does waste a bit of time.

Jeff
--
A clever person solves a problem.
A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein


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