Robert Goodale sarcastically remarked: >Your right. Allllllll that wasted bandwidth is inter fearing with napster >downloads. After all, text uses soooooooooo much space. The point is, Robert, that it is darned impolite to make everyone on the list sort through more junk than they have to. Sure, it's hard to get concerned over the time wasted by computers. But this is about real people. Just think how much more pleasurable an experience it would be to receive succinct postings with text from other messages quoted and included only where necessary to the understanding of new posting. Anyone who opts to receive pianotech in digest form or by browsing the archives has to manually page through so much quoted text that it is hard to find original material. When you quote a previous posting and repost it to pianotech, remember, you are not providing us with new information. We are on pianotech. We have already seen that old posting (unless it is several weeks old, in which case we may have forgotten.) When someone quotes an entire posting without any attempt to cut it down to the essentials, they are saying to the rest of us, "I don't think enough of you people to spend a few seconds highlighting only what is necessary." or "I'm too lazy - I'll just hit reply". I wonder how often someone hits "reply" just to put "pianotech@ptg.org" in the To: field and just doesn't bother to delete the automatically included text. I have even seen on several occasions an entire digest of pianotech quoted and included just because someone who received pianotech in digest form clicked on reply and didn't care that he was including the whole digest. So you count me as one of those who feel just a little insulted every time we receive a thoughtless posting with too much included text. -Robert Scott Ypsilanti, Michigan
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