[Groop] Groop Post Padding

[promethea]

Wow. I must be really old school.

According to outlook, Ricks post weighed in at 9kb, the one he chose to
criticize, 8kb.... 

Thanks to 'all' those who came to *my* defense; I DID snip the first quoted
post, and according to age-old custom, quoted the message to which I was
replying.  Admittedly I re-quoted on the third one - where I was accusing
myself of post padding, including the prior post *was* the joke - so it was
relevant.  Once upon a time folks had a sense of humor.... apparently it was
regarded as a bug and must have been deleted in a recent revision.... 

Admittedly it was not a great joke, but then, this is the Groop...

Why Rick chose my post - one of the smallest recent posts [and easily one of
the shortest that day] to single out for his criticism might be an
interesting question - odd no one has raised it... Also, there were several
huge ones that only replied to a part of the quoted material; all those
escaped venom, though, and no alarms went off.

For my part, I'll offer Rick my abject apology and perhaps killfile for a
while.  Funny no one has asked if I get digests or single posts ... not that
total volume would be much different...  getting single posts seems a simple
solution for folks who think a digest is too difficult to d/l.  

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