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On 10/3/2012 8:15 PM, Frank Stein wrote:
Frank wrote:

I too use both e-s and aioe. Sometimes e-s gets crowded and you
cannot get on. I find both equally fast and prefer e-s as it
allows more lines to a post and more cross posting if desired.


Ok, I call total bull**** on the AIOE line-limit comment.

The vast majority of my posts on AIOE are 1 kb or less, but the single
largest message that I ever posted on AIOE was 25 kb in size - 437
lines of text (none of it being quoted text).

If you are a full-quoting FOOL and you end up posting an inordinate
amount of quoted text in your posts, then it's totally correct that AIOE
is rejecting your posts. That should be a clue that your posts do not
conform to proper usenet message composition style.

If ES accepts the same posts that AIOE rejects (for reasons of obscene
amount of quoted material) then ES should be lambasted and ridiculed for
that, and ES should be called "The Usenet Home for Full-Quoting Fools".


Don't get ****y now. Sure, I bottom post and don't clip unless file is
huge, but aioe will often reject and will limit cross posts. e-s
doesn't. So go call the computer police