Re: [photo-3d] Re : Polls

["C. Pflanze" <troggy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 pzuijlekom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> - I think all those 'extra' information in Photo-3D and Sell-3D
>   becomes slightly irritating (at least for me).
 
>   All those, most of the time, complete quotes from previous
>   posts which are quoted over and over again (as a whole).
>   I've even seen repetitions of complete digests in the past
>   with only one or two lines of comment as 'value added info'.
>   Even the moderators have noticed this and 'acted' against it.

Most people do this absent mindedly, you see this lack of editing
on Usenet frequently.  Some people are new to the net and netiquette,
or they are unskilled with their editor program, give them time.  

> I'm editing each and every digest before I put it back on my
> harddisk just to get rid of all this waste. It only costs me
> space on my harddisk I can use better for other purposes.

Instead of saving on hardisk, why not save in plain ascii text on
floppy disk in compressed format?  Then use a text search program
to dig around in there for whatever you're looking for.  

> And don't tell me that this doesn't matter because harddisks
> are so cheap nowadays. Don't forget the listers who get their
> posts/digests via (slow) modems and those who don't own big
> Pentium III 600Mhz systems with 20Gb harddisks and a 128k
> or faster connection to the internet. Don't be funny again.
> I've seen lots of people who can't afford more/better hardware
> than they have at the moment and we all have to take all those
> wonderful, contributing, list members into account.

Believe it or not, I access this list, and often the web via a
completely obsolete 25mhz 386 with 2 megs ram, DOS platform,
40meg HD, 28K modem, and this system is very fast because it
all runs in text mode.  Cyberspace.org is a fast text-based
UNIX ISP - and it's free!  When I simply must have graphics, I'll
use the slower Pentium!  When I see something scrolling by here that I
wish to save, I hit a hotkey to run a little memory resident 
program called "clipit," outline the text I want, and save it in
the proper subdirectory on floppy disk.  

> Forgive me my bad use of the English language. I'm not a 'native
> speaker' (If that counts in as an apology)

Your English is excellent - better than many 'natives!'



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