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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Re: [DucatiST] Length of messages - HUGE waste of forum space

 


I totally agree with the original poster, this is a waste of space and bandwidth which in the end costs all of us ......

oh wait,.... it's not 1992 anymore and I'm not using a dial-up modem or paying long distance fees to connect to a bbs ,...

nevermind

--- In st2_owners@yahoogroups.com, "Denis St. Amand" <questaduc@...> wrote:
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> As the writer of the first post (after the introduction) I vote for short... oh wait I shouldn't be responding to this or I might disape...
>
> Denis
> Then 98 ST2 (burned to the ground)
> Had 99 ST4 (SUV vs Duc, I lost)
> Now 03 ST4S-ABS (RED)
>
>
> On Apr 26, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Jan Wysocki wrote:
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> > Errm, the 1st of April is <---------------that way.
> >
> > I read this list with an email client, but I just took a look at the st2_owners web pages. Yahoo, has st2_owners messages going back to the 17th of July 1998, so I guess they haven't run out of space yet! These messages are just text so they take up very little space on Yahoo. (There's a quota on the documents and images because they eat up storage.)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jan
> > On the road:'03 ST4s ABS (since April 2010), '99 M900 (since new)
> > Languishing: 'Guzzi V50 III & that legend of unreliability: a Lario!
> > Norwich, UK
> >
> > st2_michael, on Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 09:13:48AM -0000 you wrote:
> >>
> >> Fellow posters,
> >> My understanding is that this forum has limited space, and repeating
> >> previous posts within new ones eats this up at a rate of knots, thus
> >> causing the automatic deletion of old but informative posts.
> >> Please please please do not include other posters' text in your replies
> >> unless you really need to do so. The threaded structure makes this
> >> totally unnecessary and wastes space.
> >> Thank you for your understanding and co-operation.
> >> Michael
> > [snip]
>

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