ADMIN: Re: Why Combine Posts? (was: Re: ADMIN: Refresher)

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 25591

>> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Penny & Bryce <pennylin at s...> wrote: DO NOT post
>> tons of messages each day; *COMBINE* your shorter replies into a single
>> message.  This helps keep our volume down!!
 
justanopinion2001 at hotmail.com said:

> Not to cause trouble or anything, but why is it important to keep
> message volume down?  If someone submits a thoughtful reply instead
> of a one-liner, and uses an appropriate header, why should they have
> to cram a bunch of unrelated topics into one giant post?  Also, if
> someone is responding to post No. 25,000, 25,005 and 25,008, and they
> put all of their thoughts into No. 25,000, then someone who tries to
> read the entire discussion on the other two threads will miss their
> input.  

No, not at all. When you combine posts you include a subject line pertinent
to all threads in your post. For instance, "SHIP: R/H sucks! -- Why I Love
Flobberworms -- Ron IS Evil" would be a subject line for a post containing
your views on Ron/Hermione (based on the books, not fic!), the relative
merits of Flobberworms and your views on Evil!Ron.

The reason is that it cuts down on bandwidth lag time in two ways:

a) People who get email only have to download one mail instead of three,
which is always faster -- each email has additional routing "fluff" stuck on
it by your ISP and YahooGroups adds the useful footer with links to the
group files.

b) People who use web view only have to open one page instead of three --
less time due to only one banner ad, only one bunch of Yahoo
headers/graphics etc.

Hope this helps.

For the HPforGrownups Moderators,

--John

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