Re[4]: [tied] Re: Short and long vowels

At 11:11:59 on Tuesday, 19 July 2005, Patrick Ryan wrote:

>> Could you please refrain from attaching fancy emoticons
>> that add several kilobytes to your post, as this one
>> did?  Some of us read these posts over a dial-up
>> connection, and you're already posting in an inefficient
>> format.  (E.g., the post to which I'm replying was three
>> times as long as the same post would have been in plain
>> text.)  Thank you.

> What is "inefficient" about the format?

I already told you: your posts are unnecessarily bloated.
The problem is that you're posting in HTML. As a result,
the message to which I'm responding actually consumed 3784
bytes (excluding headers but including the crap added by
Yahoo), while the same message in plain text is about 1700
bytes.

Incidentally, whatever program you're using also fails to
quote correctly.

Brian