RE: FN-FORUM: OFFFF FORUM: graphic designer/illustrator needing help with website

date posted 2nd October 2006 22:32

Umm, being someone who ran my own BBS and a quite successful Amiga based
Fido-like forum network for a number of years back in the 90's I think I can
tell you for sure that it was.. If you had a 1200/1200 baud modem (Or even
slower) back then you would understand that all that extra text made a big
difference to how fast you could view a message and if you're a BBS and
doing nightly net mail transfers all the extra text resulted in much longer
telephone calls and telephone bills. What I was saying is that is where the
convention ORIGINALLY came from and is why it no longer applies these days
being as bandwidth is not such a concern.

I also would like to say that the "Rules For Posting" on the so called "work
alone wiki" are NOT official rules of this forum and never have been, so I
wish people would stop touting them about like they are...

Regards

Sam Morgan

WiredEyes / WebClickGo
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> -----Original Message-----
>
> On Monday 02 Oct 2006 2:40 pm, Sam M - www.wiredeyes.com wrote:
>
> > Your attitude to posts is taken from BBS days when it was
> simply polite to
> > send as little text as possible to save users time downloading
>
> This really is a hoary old myth. It's not about bandwidth
> and never has been.
>
> Further discussion here:
> http://wiki.workalone.co.uk/index.php?page=RulesForPosting
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