[bksvol-discuss] Re: Freelists overquoting, was etiquette
- From: Ali Al-hajamy <aalhajamy@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:47:37 -0400
lol i agree d00d :-)
Seriously, though, that is a good rule of thumb. I once was a student
of, and am now instructing at, an academy which teaches blind people how
to use computers, both inside and out, as well as networking and other
concepts, and in the chapter I'm lecturing on now, one thing they say is
to respect people's time and bandwidth. Americans, and even many
Canadians, often don't know what it's like to have their bandwidth
limited because most ISP'S over here don't limit you at all, mine
included. You can upload and download as much as you want, and they
won't say a thing. Outside of North America, people are limited, and if
they go over their limits, they have to pay extra, or their connections
are slowed down almost to the point of unusability. You may think an
email that is 35 kilobytes isn't much, but if you send multiple emails
of that size which will be growing constantly as more and more is added
to them because of overquoting, and if multiple people, like you, send
multiple 35 kilobyte emails which get longer and longer because of
overquoting, they really pile up, and when your limit is 60 GB of both
upload and download, you can't afford to receive fifty emails a day
which are 35 KB or higher because everyone sending those emails doesn't
think they're too large and will affect anyone too badly.
On 10-Jun-12 08:32, Ann Parsons wrote:
Hi all,
Although it is a good idea to leave some quoted material so that the
thread can be kept in tact, overquoting is never a good idea. There
are several reasons for this:
First, on a technical list like this one, long strings of two to seven
messages can clog up the archives so that nobody can find anything.
Second, people like Daria have to pay by the byte for their internet
access. the longer a message is, the more bytes are downloaded by the
Cell Phone, increasing the byte count for the month. It would be
courteous if people would be mindful of this and refrain from
overquoting.
Third, people in foreign countries, notably India, have to pay for
their internet access by the byte. this includes home computers and
computers in Internet cafes.
Just an FYI, many lists are now beginning to ask that "me too"
messages be kept to a minimum. They serve no point and can be sent
privately to the original poster.
Ann P.
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