[Wikipedia-l] excessive posting

[Walter van Kalken]

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>I've sure heard about that delete button but I think
>it can't replace a sound culture of discussion. In an
>oral conversation you can't talk 80% of the time.
>Here, I sometimes get the impression that some people
>believe the more (and the longer) e-mails they write,
>the more right they are.
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>Arbeo 
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I second this. Sometimes discussions are ended this way before most 
people even found out it had started. It is not necassary in a 
discussion to immediately respond to every mail another person writes 
within 10 seconds of the mail arriving in your inbox. Waiting 24 hours 
never hurts!

Waerth/Walter