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Subject: Re: It would be nice if you would mention that the whole PGN is included too

Author: Jonas Bylund

Date: 13:44:03 05/26/04

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>>:) someone still on 56 kb/s modem?
>
>Holy cow, ever heard about 'netiquette' for usenets?
>People may safely assume that there is no XX KB file
>in a post when the header _doesn't_ inform about.
>BTW no I have a DSL connection with flat rate...
>I admit though that several attempts of different people
>here gave up at least on preventing people from
>dumb full quoting.
>
>>He can post pgn in whatever style he wants.
>
>I guess you know the meaning of 'please'?
>New CB PGN style also contains bazillions of unused
>characters in text only reading, therefore it should be
>at least mentioned in the header too.
>(Same concern about 'netiquette' like point one)
>
>Günther

I am sorry that i misunderstood your use of words!

Netiquette is a lot of things and most people have a different level of
tolerance when it comes to applying it, therefore it is of my beleif that
tolerance in general should be applied when reading and posting. Graham is doing
a great job sharing his results and i am pretty sure he puts in a larger effort
than most people would think and running those tournaments are both time
consuming and expensive, so failing to mention that his post is a 102 kb (i
checked including the writing) which would be around 5-10 seconds to download on
a 56 kb/s modem (maybe less i don't know), is such a small issue compared to the
valuable info he shares with us. Proper netiquette might have been to ignore the
less than pretty pgn format and bare with him not mentioning the pgn is
included, instead of critiquing, without even mentioning that he is doing a
great job. Also converting the pgn yourself should be pretty easy BTW.

Jonas



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