[beisner]

I think this entire post can be distilled into the following:

The time you spend composing a message should be proportional to the number of people in your intended audience.

[saagarjha]

this makes me feel bad about my hn comments

[necovek]

I remember a quote from Blaise Pascal's (if my memory serves me right) letter going something like "apologies for the long letter, but I lack the time to make it shorter".