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Re: Obit - Sir Clive Sinclair, Computing Pioneer [message #411269 is a reply to message #411263] Sat, 25 September 2021 13:02 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Originally posted by: Branimir Maksimovic

On 2021-09-25, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> wrote:
>> Then, snipping is most important?
>
> Indeed, there is some art in retaining the minimum useful context.
> Once upon a time it was common for USENET servers to reject posts that had
> a poor ratio of new material to quoted material. Of course in those days
> bandwidth[1] and storage were much more expensive - but human attention span
> hasn't increased in line with those things so it is still useful to be
> brief.
>
> [1] In the early days of USENET many leaf sites had a 15 minute daily slot
> to exchange data over a modem line using UUCP - all email, USENET and file
> transfer (very unpopular with admins) traffic had to fit in that slot.
>
Thanks, I'll remember, that just to aknowledge that I have read.

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