beth@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Beth Christy) (08/02/85)
[This line intentionally left blank] From: tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor), Message-ID: <616@gitpyr.UUCP>: >Ditto! I've been ignoring the followups to the 'scientific' case series for >this reason exactly! It's not that i'm not interested, it's simply that i >often have to wade through 3 or 4 pages of quoted material. It's true that far too much of those particular articles gets quoted (who needs to see those (completely irrelevant) headers alla time?). However, >the original article is always available for reference if needed. is just not true. I don't know how much disk space *you* have, but our net.news gets expunged weekly. Many of the replies don't come in for more than a week after the original is posted, and *I* sure don't save every article that comes along. Although I often just skim it, I like a fair amount of context, even when I'm home reading at 1200 baud. And our group spends a helluva lot time arguing about what exactly the other person said. Who knows if they said it or not if it isn't quoted and it's more than a week old? -- --JB (Beth Christy, U. of Chicago, ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!beth) All we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.