Re: [cobalt-users] Mexican ISP + RaQ3 = Aye Caramba!

[Dom Latter <d.latter@xxxxxxx>]

Kris Dahl wrote:
> 
> Honestly, Don, I could give a Rat's ass about long posts.

DoM, please!

> Its not worth anyone's time to bother to snip the trailing end of a post.
> What the hell does 3k (or even 3k x 100 people?) matter compared to 10
> seconds of my time?

<snipped stuff moved to end>

> Bandwidth is cheap, time is expensive.

This is *exactly* the point.  It takes *everybody's* time to get through 
posts.  It's a case of ten seconds of *your* time to make a post quicker
and easier to read versus, say, 3 seconds extra spent banging the space 
bar to get through all the crap and on to the next post multiplied by a 
couple of hundred readers = 600 seconds.

Ill-formatted posting is rude, inconsiderate, and arrogant.

It says "*my* time is more important than *your* time".

It is unprofessional.

It is the email equivalent of putting the phone down on someone 
without first saying good bye: save a couple of seconds of *your* 
time and to hell with being polite.

> I agree that this post was a particularly abusive/careless case, but
> seriously, commenting on stuff as petty as this raises the signal to noise,

I think you meant "lowers"...

> doing more harm than good (at risk of being a hypocrite).

My concern is for the long-term.  Experience shows that if you 
ignore it, or always take it to email, as some suggest, the 
usability of the list plummets.  And it's very hard not to appear
petty.  If I knew a way, I'd go for it.

> Yikes... that was a particularly nasty post.

Not at all.  I know I'll get an intelligent response from you, not an
adolescent "I'll post how I like" response.