The message
from "Franz Heymann" contains these words:

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.

Yes, but you can't choose between the two - it's a total of irritants,
and long posts full of oft-repeated tracts of text add to the problem,
they don't replace it.

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Rusty Hinge
horrid·squeak&zetnet·co·uk
http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/hi-fi/tqt.htm