[Freeciv-Dev] Re: SV: server i/o, again

[Jed Davis <jldavis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On Monday, 14 August 2000 6:39 PM +0200 Erik Sigra <freeciv@xxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Lauri Tarkkala <ltarkkal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: freeciv-dev <freeciv-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Sunday, August 13, 2000 11:14 PM
> Subject: [Freeciv-Dev] server i/o, again
>
>
> > Sorry about the waste of bandwith.
> >
> > Lauri
> >
> > --
> > "The credit belongs to the man in the arena whose face is marred by dust
> > and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, and who comes up
> > short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great
> > devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause. The man who at best
> > knows the triumph of high achievement and who at worst, if he fails,
> > fails while daring greatly, so that his place will never be with those
> > cold timid souls who never knew victory or defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt
> I would say that long quotation in every message from you is more waste
> of bandwidth.
Estimating the signature to take 100 bytes more than the standard 80 chars 
* 4 lines, you'd need ~120 such posts to "waste" as much bandwidth as that 
one resent patch.  So no, the quotation is not a greater waste of bandwidth 
(or at least not yet, anyway).
--Jed, wasting bandwidth with this very message.