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Re: [LUG] Etiquette was Re: And this is bad news...

 

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:27:08PM +0100, Martijn Grooten wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 12:10 PM, james kilty wrote:
> > Interesting that my wife and colleagues are regularly asked to clear out
> > their mailboxes as the server is clogged up with their huge bank of
> > top-posted emails which grow in size each post.
> 
> Well, there is that, of course, but I don't think storage is too much
> of an issue these days. At least it shouldn't be, for it's quite
> cheap.

Claiming that storage/memory/CPU isn’t an issue because it’s so cheap is
what leads to wasteful programming and bloat.

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