For the record... I assumed you were poking fun, too. It must have been hard in the bad old days, when you needed to shave off every unneeded byte... On Mar 12, 2014 10:00 PM, <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > Replies inline... > > On Wed, 12 Mar 2014, Jeff Chapin wrote: > > I like to assume my correspondents don't need to re-read the full email >> chain every time, >> > > Back In The Day(tm) we used to delete parts of the message that were no > longer relevant. > > Back In The Day(tm) we also had 300baud modems and sending a 1K text file > took forever. So you cut down wherever you could. > > Nowadays I could attach a video of my cat playing Fruit Ninja to this > email and nobody would even notice that it took longer to get there. > > > > > By the way, just in case this DOES get out of hand, I'm being somewhat > tongue-in-cheek here. I actually wrote an article for an edition of > Internet Magazine (which, ironically, was a print magazine) back in 1997 or > something ranting about how "normal" people were ruining "our" internet, > with their top-replies and their geocities websites with purple text on > green background and the BLINK tag. And this was BEFORE Flash... so I like > to occasionally put my Grumpy Old "I've Been Using The Internet Since The > 80s" hat and tell people to get off my digital lawn. > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140312/88b4829e/attachment.html>