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 Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1265