net-etiquette, bandwidth, and posting to this newsgroup  Joe
Smith jes at Sat Aug 4 17:14:42 EST 1990  > 1) Do you think that
there is too much noise on the bionet bulletin > boards, or too
little content?  At the risk of contradicting myself - no, I
don't think noise, or the cost of a few extra lines in a message
are really that important.  I do think that careful quoting (as
you did in your response!) is 1) polite: it saves the reader's
time in (re-)reading some excess verbiage and instead gets right
to the point; and 2) it forces the poster to consider carefully
what the other person really said.  [ I said readers could
retrieve the quoted article and you quoted DK who said it might
not be easy for those getting the groups by e-mail ]  If some
other reader really needs the whole article and can't retrieve
it, s*he can always ask the group or the poster to send it.  I
really appreciate the considered, intelligent discussion that
occurrs.  I'm really annoyed when people fire off questions/
responses/flames t