Return-Path: Received: from relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net ([66.133.131.36] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.4) with ESMTP id 2602885 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 00:03:33 -0400 Received: (qmail 1789 invoked from network); 25 Sep 2003 04:03:32 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO frontiernet.net) ([67.50.169.163]) (envelope-sender ) by relay03.roc.ny.frontiernet.net (FrontierMTA 2.3.6) with SMTP for ; 25 Sep 2003 04:03:32 -0000 Message-ID: <3F725B8B.FC2E4CAA@frontiernet.net> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 23:05:47 -0400 From: Jim Sower X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] quotebacks again References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've been noticing that, but didn't bother to discipline my self. Mea culpa. I'll do better. Jim S. Marvin Kaye wrote: > 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..... > > > > >> Homepage: http://www.flyrotary.com/ > >> Archive: http://lancaironline.net/lists/flyrotary/List.html -- Jim Sower Crossville, TN; Chapter 5 Long-EZ N83RT, Velocity N4095T