[Groop] Groop Post Padding

promethea promethea at kc.rr.com
Mon Mar 6 01:04:55 PST 2006



>-----Original Message-----
>From: groop-bounces at groo.com [mailto:groop-bounces at groo.com] On Behalf Of
>Rick Loomis
>Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 11:11 PM
>To: groop at groo.com
>Subject: Re: [Groop] Groop Post Padding
>
>
>>
>>Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 21:20:15 -0600
>>From: "promethea" <promethea at kc.rr.com>
>>Subject: Re: [Groop] Did I Err?
>>To: <groop at groo.com>
>>Message-ID: <003401c640cc$e4a989e0$b601a8c0 at TOSHIBA>
>>Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"
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>>Yea, post-padding is a contemptible practice...
>
>And I will make my annual plea: if you are going to be padding your 
>posts by making lots of short comments (I don't mind, really!) please 
>delete all the extraneous remarks, and the multiple copies attached 
>of previous messages. If you are reading the messages one at a time 
>it doesn't matter, but if you get the Groop Digest, you get it all in 
>one big lump and you have to hunt through the entire message looking 
>for the actual new comments and messages. Sometimes I'll get a 20K 
>message and the only new content is "I agree!".
>
>Back to Lurking
>Rick Loomis
>
>
>Flying Buffalo Inc  www.flyingbuffalo.com
>PO Box 1467, Scottsdale, AZ 85252
>480-945-6917 fax 480-994-1170
>
>

To which I will add my first annual plea: If you are going to ask folks to
make their messages shorter for your download, try to make sure your request
is longer than their entire post - and make sure to add a studly commercial
signature file to increase the post size a few more bytes....



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