On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well sure, if you use a program to do it, then any number of > repetitions is trivial (at least until you start getting into the > gigabytes). We're talking about effort for a *human* to do it.
Why should we, when the message (if repeated 1,000 times) probably won't be written by a human? There are three barriers to break in terms of effort: 1. the barrier of writing a script 2. the barrier of sending a message with the same action repeated multiple times, which can be annoying to others 3. the barrier of having to send a message in multiple parts The first is not much of a barrier, at least for a large number of Players. The second is poorly defined, especially when in many circumstances (scams) it is more of a convenience than an annoyance to abbreviate messages. The third, in this case, is 1,203 copies of 'I go on hold. I come off hold.\n' plus that message's headers, which would cause the message to be over 40kb.
