[HPFGU-Feedback] Long posts, was Re: ADMIN: We'd Like to Pick Your Brains About TBAY

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On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 23:10:31 -0000, Amanda wrote
> Shaun:
> 
> > I was asked to move these posts because they were too long and some 
> people 
> > don't like receiving long messages.
> 
> This was actually *said* to you? Really? Was it because your own 
> material was too long, or because the quoted or "responded to" 
> material was too long? Because I have *never* heard of this being 
> given out as a reason. *Treatises* have appeared on the main list.

Yes, this was said to me - or rather written to me. And it is extremely
unlikely that it was because the quoted material was too long because there
was no quoted material as far as I can recall.

It was a post about whether the astronomical conditions described in the
astronomy exam in Order of the Phoenix were possible or not. It was fairly
long, but I don't think ridiculously so.

But I was mailed by a list elf telling me (paraphrasing here - not at home,
and not sure if I even have the message anymore) that posts of that length
should be moved to OT-Chatter out of consideration to other users.
 
> If I have time, I'll dig out my own take on TBAY from a long-ago 
> discussion; I'm finding it interesting to hear many of the same 
> takes and interpretations as the MEG discussions on TBAY had.
> 
> ~Amanda
> 
> P.S.--Can you tell me what "Yours Without Wax" means? I wonder about 
> it Every Single Time and I'm finally remembering to ask.

I see this has been answered by someone else (-8

Basically I had to do Latin at school and used to spend about half of every
class bored out of my brain - so I read my Latin text book. Occasionally it
had little side notes and one of them was about the origin of sincere - it
stuck with me.