On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 11:28 -0400, Sam Mason wrote: > > On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:16 -0400, Sam Mason wrote: > > > In the case of two (or another small number) of people in limited > > > discussion the copy-everything mode of top-posting doesn't matter. > > > Efficiency concerns really don't matter most of the time here.
> But it's kilobytes we're talking about; this is five decimal orders of > magnitude less than most peoples storage capacity. The example above > seems to be about a couple orders of magnitude. > > Mailing list archives seem to be about the only people it affects. > Everybody else is going to be much more worried about attachments > getting large first. Or were you replying to bits you didn't quote? One of my roles is sharing in Exchange administration here. We limit people to 500 MB on the server. We have little success in convincing people that email data stores are not file systems or document management systems. So we impose a limit which, when exceeded, prevents them from sending messages. Let them decide how to manage their own inboxes to stay within that limit. Many users have >10,000 messages. For me, the best reason to quote bottom or interleaved, is to encourage the sender to look at what she is quoting and trim what isn't needed. If we eliminated the thoughtless and duplicative quoting, those same hoarders could keep at least 40,000 messages. Which, with my poorly attributed quote, is my long winded way of saying that eventually, even kilobytes add up, and that I know this from personal experience. > > [1] The actual quote > > ...seems to be a misquote: > > http://www.dirksencenter.org/print_emd_billionhere.htm Thanks for that. Not only did Dirksen possibly not say it, but I even had my mid-1960s Republicans mixed up. No matter who said, it, it remains one of my favorite lines. Honest mistake, I guess, I was 11 years old at the time. > -- Art Alexion Resources for Human Development, Inc. 215-951-0300 x3075 4700 Wissahickon Ave. a...@rhd.org Philadelphia, PA 19144 267-615-3172 _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
