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From: jsf@mink.mt.att.com (Jay Fishman)
Subject: Re: Netiquette was:(Single European Language (german?))
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Date: Wed, 28 Jun 1995 16:07:22 GMT
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In article <donhDAurv3.9zK@netcom.com>, Don HARLOW <donh@netcom.com> wrote:
>...
>And ... a word to the wise ... netiquette requests (it cannot demand, of 
>course) that quoted material irrelevant to your comments be excised 
>before mailing. Quoting twenty or thirty lines of material so that you 
>can make a pithy one-word comment is considered an undesirable waste of 
>bandwidth and costs hundreds if not thousands of net.dollars. (The net.
>dollar is worth approximately two bottle caps.)
>

And netiquette also requests that you change the subject line of a follow-up
when the content of your reply no longer has anything to do with the subject.

Don, with the revaluation of the net.dollar, what is the exchange rate for
bottle opener type caps (you know the metal type with the ridges) to the twist 
off variety? :-)


Retetiketo ankaux petas, ke oni aliigu la titolon de sia respondo kiam la 
enhavoj ne plu rilatas la originalan titolon.

Don, pro la sxangxvaloranta de la retdolaro, kio estas la  kurzo inter la
malnovaj metalaj botelcxapoj kaj la novaj plastaj tordcxapoj? :-)


Jay
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Jay FISHMAN
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