Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!uhccux!munnari.oz.au!bruce!trlluna!shiva!soh From: soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Verbosity and quoted old news Summary: Extremely verbose articles with little or no new news. Message-ID: <1294@trlluna.trl.oz> Date: 10 Apr 90 01:30:22 GMT References: <23800@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> <212@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> <1990Apr8.231542.23330@wam.umd.edu> Sender: root@trlluna.trl.oz Reply-To: soh@shiva.trl.oz (kam hung soh) Organization: Telecom Research Labs., Switched Networks Research Branch Lines: 21 I enjoy reading comp.sys.amiga, but I am annoyed by many new articles which consist of long slabs of quoted articles and cute or silly one liners and long signatures. If you must do a lot of quoting, could you please warn readers in the header or in the body of the article? For example, use the ^L code (formfeed or whatever is appropriate) and give readers a chance to decide whether to read your article. If authors wish to insult each other, do it using email or *.flame, not in the general newsgroup. I am just an average programmer who wants a bit of light reading during lunch, so I do not like wading through pages of repeated text and wasting my time. I appeal to authors to show some restraint and consider who the readers of their work will be before sending an article or a follow up. What do other readers feel about this matter? ----------------------------------- Soh, Kam Hung Telecom Research Laboratories, P.O. Box 249, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia email: h.soh@trl.oz.au tel: +61 03 541 6403