Rule 4: Respect other people's
time and bandwidth Rule 4 has a
number of implications for discussion group users. Most discussion group
readers are already spending too much time sitting at the computer; their
significant others, families, and roommates are drumming their fingers,
wondering when to serve dinner, while those network maniacs are catching up on
the latest way to housebreak a puppy or cook zucchini. And many news-reading
programs are slow, so just opening a posted note or article can take a while.
Then the reader has to wade through all the header information to get to the
meat of the message. No one is pleased when it turns out not to be worth the
trouble.
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