At 11:17 AM 6/1/2010, Carcharoth wrote:

On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:

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Procedural note to moderators: Perhaps it is time to consider a length limit on posting?

I'm not a moderator, but I've just been skipping those long posts. They are annoying, but I may one day read those posts if I have nothing better to do, and sometimes there is something interesting in there.

That's what I do with long posts that don't grab me. Some people like long posts, some don't. Some of those who don't want to prevent those who like them from receiving them. It is a very old story.

I skip *lots* of posts. But I have no opinion that there is necessarily something wrong with them. Obviously. If the writer wanted to reach me, then the effort failed. But the post wasn't sent personally to me, if it were, I'd be much more inclined to read it.

Now, what I do which could be a problem is to respond to an individual, thus luring the individual into reading it, but I'm actually exploring a much larger topic. Perhaps if I'm going to write something that might be taken as an attack, I should make it brief and separate it from the larger commentary -- or not send it at all.