Re: Is this waste of bandwidth really necessary?? (was Re: Imaging floppies on a Mac?)

[wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Jeff Jungblut (jeff@port-charles.com) wrote:
: In article <19991003161927.10259.00000252@ng-fz1.aol.com>,
: supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

: > Since you are new to the IIGS, please allow me to give
: > you a tour of the system.

: [300+ lines of FAQish stuff snipped]

: Wouldn't a simple URL to this info or to the FAQ be more appropriate? 
: There are four copies of this on my news server in separate threads, three
: of them posted in about an hour on Sunday.

One could argue that a few users in csa2 do not have any/good web or
FTP access.  There are a great many of us that access usenet via our Apple
II computers.  Some of us (we lucky ones) have shell accounts that will
do it all.  Others have to take what they can get.

Supertimer has meerly created a timely way of getting that information out
to people -- so that they are not left awaiting the posting of FAQs.

Besides, I have seen bandwidth being wasted over much more frivilous
things.

Byron.