Re: Space travel by humans is not possible now

"Jeff Findley" <jeff.findley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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:"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 :2) DO NOT QUOTE ENTIRE LONG POSTS!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.
:>
: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.
:

All true (except the 'go back and read the original' is an annoying
expectation - trimming is fine and appropriate, but over-trimming is
worse than not doing it at all), but the 'bandwidth' whine was
generally viewed as being a stupid strawman somewhat on the order of a
grammar flame and it's been known to be a bogus reason for complaining
about 'over quoting' for at least a couple of decades now.

I'll also note that a lot of the reasons you give above are the same
reasons people give for top-posting, a practice which I consider about
as mannerly as urinating in a punch bowl at a party.

The real reason is that it's generally just unmannerly to not bother
to clean out the non-relevant parts of an article you're replying to.
But OM is too stupid to recognize that as a 'valid' reason, so he uses
the stupid cliche, instead.


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