On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:13:31 -0400, Dave Smith >
wrote:

-->Bobo Bonobo® wrote:
-->
-->> Killfiling seems so silly. Isn't it mostly a leftover from the days
-->> where even text-only used significant bandwidth?
-->
-->If nothing else, it saves you the temptation of responding when it is
-->difficult to be polite.
-->
-->> My 2400 baud modem
-->> just can't keep up with all these unwanted headers? Is that what it
-->> was for?
-->
-->
-->2400??? You can't be serious. That is almost stone age.

I started with a 300 baud, start downloading a 1 meg file update usually at
bed, and by morning it had been download. God was it cutting edge.