Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Mike Spurgeon wrote:schmidtd wrote:My pet usenet peeve, since we're discussing them: quoting an article in its entirety.Get used to it. The great unwashed masses that showed up sometime after 1985 or so are clueless about bandwidth considerations...And in a world dominated by graphic web pages, text is never a bandwidth consideration... ;-)
Sure it is. We're talking usenet, which by tradition is all text. It's a hidden cost that everyone pays for...