Yo! Martin:
Tuesday August 20 1996 21:02, Martin Niemeyer wrote to Richard Dale:
 MN> In this echo, the only person I have ever seen mention the subject
 MN> in the past AND now has been you. If you look back less than a week
 MN> you will even see a message from our moderator, Bill Cheek which
 MN> quotes a 15 LINE MESSAGE with a one line response.  That's is about
 MN> the same ratio as my message, so I guess, I won't feel too guilty
 MN> about my slip up.  But then again, up to this point, this message is
 MN> a total waste of space because it has absolutely nothing to do with
 MN> scanning.
The topic is open for discussion until further notice.  Some good comments 
are coming out and I don't want to discourage them.
As far as quoting is concerned, it is not one of my pet peeves.  We can 
tolerate a lot of things.......like quoting, tag lines, digital signatures, 
etc, before we can tolerate hostility, flames, and ill-will.
The bad vibes are about gone and in appreciation of that, I have not been 
much of a stickler for the small stuff.
IMHO, excessive quoting isn't a virtue, but bandwidth and the cost of it just 
are not hot items these days.  The cost is not exhorbitant anymore.  In favor 
of clear and accurate communciations, we will not rag on the small stuff to 
speak of.  Anything out of hand is unacceptable, but I like the limits of 
reason this echo has been following of late.
Bill Cheek | Internet: bcheek@cts.com | Compu$erve: 74107,1176
Windows 95 Juggernaut Team | Microsoft MVP | Moderator - SCANRADIO
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