"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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: "Jane Ransom" wrote in message
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: In article , Martin Sykes
: writes
: Off topic, but does it really take longer to download longer posts?
:
: It's not just the download time, it is the clogging up of the internet
: problem. You think of the number of people receiving the posts and
: multiply that by the length of the post and then consider that it has to
: zoom around the bowels of the internet. The shorter we keep our posts,
: the fewer we keep them, the more efficient the internet is!!! And that
: is why I hate useless, unwanted spam and adverts and binaries as well.
:
: The problem which worries you about long posts to urg is utterly
negligible
: in comparison with the amount of spam which is circulating, and the amount
: of clogging caused by, for instance, the Swen virus. I get more than
twice
: the number of attacks daily from that pest than the total number of emails
: and newsgroup notes per day.
:
: Franz
:
I have up-to-date on line virus checker and have had no problems with swen
virus. You should try it.
Perhaps your quantity of virus attacks/spam is proportionate to the amount
of postings you make to this, and presumably other, groups.

K