From: "Marvin Kaye" <marv@lancaironline.net>
Subject: quotebacks again
To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 22:36:15 -0400
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Hi guys, it's me again....

I know that I've mentioned this too many times in the past, but I don't know 
how else to get the message across... 

I have put the FlyRotary list on autopilot at the request of many of you.  The 
only proviso that I tossed into the mix was that I would leave it unmoderated 
as long as we self-police the quoteback situation.  Well, it's getting out of 
hand again, and I'm going to start moving people back into moderate mode 
unless you clean up your acts.  I don't know how else to say it, as I've tried 
asking nicely and that hasn't seemed to work.  We are consuming a ridiculous 
amount of storage with all this repetition and I really need to curtail the 
problem before it gets totally out of hand.  To illustrate, here are some 
statictics comparing the (moderated) Lancair Mail List to the (unmoderated) 
FlyRotary list...

Total posts        (LML)- 20,682       (FlyRotary)- 3,319
Storage used       (LML)- 100 megs     (FlyRotary)- 43 megs

as you can see, the FlyRotary message count is about 16% of the LML, but it 
uses 43% of the LML storage space.  We are a long way from hitting my 
allocated 1 gb of storage, but I don't see any reason to squander the space. 
 Additionally, I have started skipping over posts that include too many 
quotes, as I don't have the time to figure out what's new and what's old.  I 
don't imagine I'm alone in this practice, either.  If you want your stuff 
read, please do us all a favor and focus the quotes.  Thanks.  

'Nuff said.....

         <Marv>