From: Todd Benson <caduceass@...>
Date: 2007-05-24T00:33:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Netiquette (was Re: ruby libnet)

On 5/23/07, Karl von Laudermann <doodpants@mailinator.com> wrote:
> On May 22, 8:15 am, James Edward Gray II <j...@grayproductions.net>
> wrote:
> > The real issue is that you waist the bandwidth of thousands of
> > readers every time you send a message to this list.  That's just bad
> > manners.
>
> Actually, a linefeed character doesn't use up any more bandwidth than
> any other character.

True.  I think the commodity being wasted isn't really net bandwidth,
though,  but rather screen real estate (pixel bandwidth), which can be
a little annoying.  I have an old development system that I frequently
use to check my mail on.  It has a crappy monitor.  Can I scroll
through the fluff?  Of course.  But I like having as much info on the
screen at one time.  Besides, the same artwork on "every" post gets
tiresome.  Maybe if it was ruby code that depicted something new every
time :)