Re: Space travel by humans is not possible now

simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:

:On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:11:55 -0500, in a place far, far away, "Greg D.
:Moore \(Strider\)" <mooregr_deleteth1s@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor
:on my monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:
:
:>"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 :2) DO NOT QUOTE ENTIRE LONG POSTS!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.
:
:Not to mention for people who (hard to believe, but true) still are on
:dial up.
:

I ran a UUCP server via dial-up. Bandwidth for non-binary groups was
never a problem.

:>> 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.
:
:The Chomko/McCall endless untrimmed threads are never worth reading,
:anyway.
:

I killfiled El Chimpko some time back.

Why haven't you?

[And since you still read his tripe, are you really so stupid that you
haven't noticed the lack of any responses to him from me?]


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"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the
soul with evil."
-- Socrates
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