Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 18:49:56 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: message length policy
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

At 07:00 AM 03/06/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>ronkean at juno.com wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 15:20:41 -0500 (EST) "Keith F. Lynch"
> > <kfl at keithlynch.net> writes:
> >
> > > This is WSFA's list, not my list, so what do all of you think?
> > > Should
> > > I block all messages of more than a certain size?  If so, what
> > > size?
> > > Mine was 16k.  The longest message before today was 11k.
> >
> > Instead of blocking long messages, could you just snip them to a certain
> > length?  If you did that, it would encourage top posting (for short
> > answers), and it would encourage economy for longer, interleaved,
> > answers.  I think a 4K limit would combat archive bloat.
>
>I vote no snippage, no editing, no length limit.  Period.  WSFA is one
>of the few places I have found where one can express an uncensored
>opinion and have it respected -- not necessarily agreed with, but
>respected.  Why change this with arbitrary length limits?

What she said.