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Jul 22, 2002, 2:55am

Sure, Bowen, it's all relative. But that doesn't mean you can't take a piddly 2 seconds to delete unnecessary quoting and sigs. Learn how to use newsgroups correctly, man. Your quoting REALLY looks like crap when it breaks up like it does. Take some pride in your computer usage and learn how to use it more efficiently. It benefits everyone in the long run, including you.

[View Quote] > Well that's the greatness of free choice. The newsgroups really don't play
> an intricate role in the AW environment. So, if you want to partake in
> them, you take the risk of downloading 1 kb longer messages or HTML messages
> and/or file attachments. It's your choice. Simply comparing my (my being a
> generalization to most users in the NG) not taking out a sig or two or not
> changing the subject line to someone spamming or what have you is just
> silly. :) I do clip my "quotes" when they get too long, other than that,
> I'm just don't feel the need to spare you a kb every 2-3 messages. Ignore
> the thread, don't download it's headers, etc.
>
> I also don't think it's abuse in what I do.. you should've seen when
> whomever posted that freaking giant penny in the AWTeen newsgroup. Now
> that's abuse.
>
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