[MLB-WIRELESS] POSTING DISCIPLINE - DELETE EXCESS QUOTAGE

[Ben Anderson]

> I'm totally boggled by your attitude in regards to this, btw.

Let's see if I can clear it up a bit :)

<snip>
> > Time taken, only have to read the new info.  The old information is very
> > useful in extracting context information, which is way too easily lost
in
> > email conversations...  Makes it hard to figure out which interpretation
of
> > the words is the correct one if too much is deleted.  Intelligent
pruning is
> > good, most people, in my experience, once they start, delete too much.
I'd
> > prefer excess crap than lack of context.
>
> This is why we have threads and mail archives.

Well in that case, what is the purpose of having a mailing list?  Just run a
'web board' to maintain the context.  Seriously, if the context of the
previous few comments (from which the response is derrived) the possible
number of interpretations of that response increases in a large way -- large
enough that I believe anyone reasonably interested in looking at 'new' ideas
(ie ones outside the current scope of their knowledge) will have a very
difficult time interpreting the ideas presented, as a "response" doesn't
usually contain enough details to be able to follow a persons train of
thought in and of itself.


> > Umm, what situation.  Hard disk is less than AU$ 4 per gigabyte -- how
many
> > gigabytes of disk are you running out of already?
>
>
> 500 messages per day since 1990?

By my rough calculations, that should be less than 10gig for 12 years,
uncompressed.  Due to the large amount of redundancy, compression could
probably reduce that by between 5 and 10 fold.

> Feel free to donate any spare multi-gig drives you have to the cause,
dude.
>
> Hang on, are you saying you can get 10 gig drives for $40?

80 gig for 315.   10 gig drives are like 145, 20 155, 40 210 and 80 315.
Who in their right mind wouldn't buy an 80?

Ben.


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