Rebecca Ore on 16 Jun 2004 18:05:04 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Google, Microsoft, Yahoo down today. 


On Wednesday, June 16, 2004, at 08:06 AM, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:


I understand your preference for quote-respond rather than the
inverse, but how does it affect your bandwidth?  Do you actually read
the first few hundred bytes before deciding whether or not to download
the rest?  Or do you mean mental bandwidth?


People who top post tend to leave the rest of the message unsnipped. This means each subsequent message gets longer and longer and longer as long as top posters are answering it.

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