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From: rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone)
Newsgroups: net.religion,net.religion.christian
Subject: Did you have to post this?
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Date: Fri, 6-Sep-85 12:15:17 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep  6 12:15:17 1985
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I am sometimes amazed at the length of some of the articles in these
groups.  None of the dozen or so others that I read ever has a size
of an article in excess of 200 lines.  And now I see one 500+ lines
long here!  I realize that disscusions of the subjects approached
here can not be limited to one or two lines, but do we really need
this many to get our ideas across?  And what about these 100+ line
follow-ups to original postings?  I know the inter-system mail is
bad, but it will usually work if you really try.  This isn't really
the flame that it's starting to sound like.  It's just a call for
some thought about:

a. what we are saying
b. how we are saying it
c. whether anyone else besides the original poster cares

This isn't meant to offend.  It is only meant to alert those of you
out there that are on the more "verbose" side that there are a lot
of people who won't hear you.  And that's a pity, because you may be
saying something we really should hear!

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