X-Message-Number: 1265
Date: 03 Oct 92 00:36:30 EDT
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: CRYONICS

To: Kevin Brown

Some of us do not have free access to Internet. For instance,
I log on via Compuserve, as I know several other cryonet 
reader/participants do. For us, it costs money merely to
RECEIVE Internet messages. As I recall, it's 15 cents for the
first 5K, and another 5 cents for each additional 5K. (The
numbers may be slightly different, but certainly in that range.)

Even people who receive cryonet postings at no cost must of
course spend time perusing them; and the longer the postings
are, the more time it will take to find out if the content is
interesting.

What I am leading up to is that extremely long postings are not
very welcome. Brevity is not intrinsically virtuous, but in this
medium, where it is so very easy to feed many K of text into the
net, se;f-restraint is perhaps a goal to aim for.

Failing that, how would other people feel if there was, say, a
10K-per-day limit for each person's postings? I would have thought
that 10K would be ample to express almost any coherently argued
opinion on one topic--which is what I thought Cryonet is for.

If anyone wanted to upload something longer than 10K, (s)he would
still have the option of posting a summary, so that anyone who
was interested could write and ask for the full text, which could
then be transmitted direct, instead of via Kevin Brown. Kevin has
largely automated the distribution of cryonet messages, but I
imagine he still has to spend time on the procedure, which
increases as the amount of data increases. The last thing we
want to do is wear him out.

--Charles Platt

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