[Groop] Groop Post Padding

Stray Toaster groo at stray-toaster.co.uk
Mon Mar 6 02:10:00 PST 2006


On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:04:55AM -0600, promethea wrote:
> 
> 
> >-----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"
> >>
> >>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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And don't use things in your muttrc like cowsay.

*cough* Sorry. I should know better. But. Could. Not. Resist.

m.

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