[MD] 10K Limit

[Horse]

Hi Platt

Unless I send out a warning (or have already sent one out) on the list, 
I have no intention of limiting responses, original contributions etc. I 
don't like doing that and have always tried to avoid situations where 
that can happen.
By eliminating unnecessary repetition, posts and threads are easier to 
follow and are more like conversations. They also take up less space in 
the archives and when searching the archives less effort is needed to 
follow a thread. IMO.
There are still some posts slipping through (some are my fault) that 
don't follow the simple protocol of removing unnecessary comments but 
these are becoming less prevalent. We'll get there eventually.
Once we get to the point where this is at a reasonable level and members 
are consistently posting with care then I shall increase the post size 
so that no-one is inconvenienced.

Cheers

Horse


On 18/11/2010 02:30, Platt Holden wrote:
> Hi Horse,
>
> OK. I get it. It's about eliminating unnecessary repetition, not limiting
> responses or other original contributions, as I had erroneously assumed.
>
> Thanks for explaining.
> Platt.
>
> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Horse<horse at darkstar.uk.net>  wrote:
>
>> Hi Platt
>> Don't panic - I'm only bumping posts that aren't edited properly.
>> I'm not bothered if a post is over 10K as long as it's properly edited.
>> All I'm trying to do is to get members to refrain from just copying whole
>> posts and adding a couple of lines at the beginning - I'm not commenting on
>> content, just how much irrelevant content is included.
>> The vast majority of posts are already less than 10K.
>> It's a bit tricky trying to predict how much text constitutes 10K as it
>> depend on whether you create an email in plain text, rich text, html etc.
>>
>> Horse
>>
>>
>>
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