[Nottingham] NTL Cache Performance Suggestions

[.waffle]

Someday I'll have enough time to do it... I believe it's called top
posting... Has anyone ever thought of Newsgrouping this? I have a newsreader
that can do some of this stuff better, rather than the evident Outlook
Express style.

.waffle


----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Bird" <tom@hambule.co.uk>
To: <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Nottingham] NTL Cache Performance Suggestions


| On Sat, 1 Mar 2003, .waffle wrote:
|
| > Nope. Although I know. It's to do with using unused frequencies on a
PSTN
| > line... You only use 10kHz of the line so ADSL uses the rest...
|
| 4 KHz.
|
| Another point (old man mode on here), there seems to be an explosion of
| "outlook quoting" and just down right laziness on this list recently.
|
| There's an RFC on it somewhere (I'll dig it out) that recommends trimming
| the quoted text (that means chopping the non relevant parts out) and
| putting your reply *underneath* it.
|
| If you're not careful, you end up with tens (hundreds perhaps) of KB of
| cruft underneath every one or two line post.
|
| Ah yes, RFC1855. http://rfc.net/rfc1855.html -- read, absorb.
|
| --
| Tom
|
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