Re: [T3] Off-topic posts / filter off

[Greg Merritt <gregm@vwtype3.org>]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Jim Adney wrote:

> unnecessary waste of internet bandwidth to sent it to several 
> hundred people.

	All true -- though there are additional concerns of much greater
interest to us.

	Excessive quoting pads the archive with duplicate information. 
This makes for effectively "wasted" disk space on the Web server (which is
more expensive than the cost of the disk drive -- 24/7 attended machines,
backups, redundant *fast* Internet connectivity, etc.), which costs real
dough.  Also, you have to wade through more fluff in the search results
when searching the archives, and the searches take longer.  It's at the
point where we'll have to think about removing older archived posts due to
disk space issues. 

Cheers,
-Greg

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