text vs html posts on this list...
Graham Cossey
graham at cossey.plus.com
Mon Oct 4 15:15:00 UTC 2004
[snip]
> My last hard drive
> cost about US$0.60 per gigabyte...so I'm not sure the "large" size of
> html emails is a legitimate argument. The other argument was that folks
> with dialup connections will have lengthy downloads...it's not clear
> just how much longer it takes a typical html post to download on a 56k
> connection than on a broadband connection, probably not much longer.
<.02c>
My feeling is that it is not so much a size issue on the client - although
if you're subscribed to several busy mailing lists it could well be an
issue - what about the server having to send 100's/1000's of emails each
one a few k bigger than required? I would think it soon adds up...
</.02c>
[snip]
Next topic: Top posting :)
(only joking!!)
Graham
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