[Groop]Re: Groop digest, Great story, 6 times?

[Rick Loomis]

At 07:59 AM 3/7/02 -0800, you wrote:

That story about the Wasa was great! Thanks Oskar. 

To the rest of you:  umm.... How do I say this politely? Could you perhaps
consider "cutting and pasting" a teensy bit?  When you reply to a story
(even a great one like that), it isn't really necessary to repeat the
entire story with your reply. In my current digest, I got six copies of the
story, as it was appended to the reply of everyone who mentioned it! I
realize we are all fans of "The Stupid One", but really I suspect we would
all know to which story you were referring, if you would just append the
first couple of lines or two, instead of the person's entire post? I really
love this list, but it gets kind of old trying to read past the same long
story 6 times. (Or am I missing a joke here? Everyone is doing this
deliberately so we get every good story or joke multiple times, like the
Mulch one?) With the digest version of the list, I can't just "skip the
rest of the message" when I realize that the rest of the message is just a
copy of a previous msg. I have to skim over every line until I spot the
start of the next message. And all that added duplication made the digest
message 32K long! When I am out of town, checking my email by dialup modem,
I end up waiting for a long time for those big messages to download!
Thanks, I would really appreciate it!  Rick Loomis
PS I fully intend to talk to Mark one of these days about me making a Groo
licensed product. But I'll tell you all about it if it ever happens. 



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