On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 12:57:15PM -0600, Joel Rosenberg wrote: > I'm apparently missing something -- is bandwidth at such a premium locally > that a bit of extra text is a problem? Who is using a 2400 baud modem? Doesn't matter how fast my DSL is, the bandwidth of my eyes is still limited. Messages that look like: 1 line note --- message from so-and-so --- 3,762 lines of text which may or may not contain additional comments and there's no way to tell without visually scanning through all of it are a real PITA, even with a MUA that's kind enough to highlight quoted text. If you edit your quotes once, your hundreds of readers don't have to all waste their time editing them mentally. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss