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From: rlw@wxlvax.UUCP (Richard L. Wexelblat)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Long messages - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 2-Dec-83 13:00:45 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  2 13:00:45 1983
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Some people have missed the point about long messages.

Avoiding them is not a value judgement on the intentions of the author.  Nor
is it a judgement on the significance of the content.

Rather, it is a judgement of the proper allocation of the time of the reader.
I doubt that any of us have time to read at length all of the items in all of
the groups that might interest us.  Given my limited time and limited attention
span, I opt for quantity.  I don't believe I sacrifice quality thereby.  As
Samuel Butler said,

	Brevity is not only the soul of wit, but the soul of making
	oneself agreeable and of getting on with people, and indeed
	of everything that makes life worth having.

[Note: agreeability is in the psyche of the beholder.  Let's not get into a
spitting match on who has to or hasn't to make oneself agreeable to whom.]

--dick wex...   (...decvax!ittvax!wxlvax!rlw)