[wplug] Re: A gentle reminder on posting etiquette

Eric Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Tue Jan 9 10:49:18 EST 2007


On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:17:04AM -0500, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> For what its worth, a well written text-only message is still only a 
> couple of kilobytes of data on the disk.

Unfortunately, thanks to spam filtering, virus scanning, etc., the
headers are often bigger than the body.  In the message from Jonathan
to which I'm replying, there are 69 lines (~3KB) of headers, with 48
lines (~2KB) of body.  And the ratio is probably worse for this one. :-)

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Eric Cooper             e c c @ c m u . e d u


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