TL;DR - trim your posts - it saves time, frustration and bandwidth.
Things people forget (or don't consider); Not everyone has unlimited bandwidth. Mobile devices are still comparatively expensive for data - why waste money receiving useless stuff? Waste of battery too?
Useless text waters down your message - just give the people the bit they need to see, else by the time they've waded through the dross, they may have forgotten what you were saying (I've had this happen - had to re-read from start due to being far too long)!
Plus time is valuable. You spend 30 seconds cleaning up a message. It then saves everyone who reads it 30 seconds (or more!) from not wading through the mess. On a group like this, that can be a BIG time saving! More time for participating and useful stuff if it isn't wasted trying to find the relevant bit of a message.
And think about all the 'useless stuff' floating around the ether that is wasting bandwith. "Me too" posts, messages with huge and useless histories, spam (ugh!) all needlessly block up pipes that slow down our browsing experience. Imagine how much quicker the internet would be if only the stuff people actually wanted were sent around - I'd guess somewhere around 2x - 4x faster!
Scrapper, Black Dragon, recommending: think, re-read then send.
--- On Wed, 9/3/11, Kit Parenteau <kitfoxen_at_gmail.com> wrote:
people saying "I have gmail and I never see the extra stuff!" and other such nonsense that endorses apathy and the world never gets better.
On 3/8/2011 10:46 AM, james_m_eden wrote:
> In this fantasy, I'm reading my email.
> ...
> and oh my god, each and every message only contains the portion(s) of the >previous message(s) that the poster is actually replying to!
Received on Tue Mar 08 2011 - 18:30:52 CST