X-Message-Number: 14947
From: "John de Rivaz" <>
References: <>
Subject: Saving space on Cryonet bandwith and archives
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 10:47:02 -0000

No offence intended for Linda, but these huge legal messages at the end of
people's emails are filling the Internet like a sort of computer virus
taking up bandwidth. In the posting indicated below, the legal stuff was
four times as long as the actual message. There used to be a rule that you
used no more than four lines in your sig file. This "advertisement" for
lawyers and legalism occupied 20 lines. The actual text of the message
occupied 5.

I wonder if it would be possible and worthwhile programming the cryonet
computer to remove them and replace them with a single line such as <legal
detritus deleted>? Everyone would then know that the sender of such messages
is a legalist and if they want to play those sorts of games they can find
out what the restrictions are by a personal email to the sender.

Over the years, these huge sig files will take up a lot of useless space on
archives. In my opinion, this is an abuse of the inheritance of science and
technology that all of us now living have received, largely untaxed and
unregulated, from previous generations.

--
Sincerely, John de Rivaz
my homepage links to Longevity Report, Fractal Report, music, Inventors'
report, an autobio and various other projects:
http://www.geocities.com/longevityrpt
http://www.autopsychoice.com - should you be able to chose autopsy?

----- Original Message -----
> Message #14928
> From: Linda Chamberlain <>
> Subject: More on Vitrification technology and Costs

< 5 line message del>
<20 line legal detritus del>

> Message #14931
> From: Kevin Q. Brown <>
> Subject: Re: Parallel list for CryoNet

<del>
> The anti-spam, data format, etc. filters are automated, not manual.
<del>

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