text vs html posts on this list...

[Graham Cossey]

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> 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. 

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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...
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Next topic: Top posting  :)
(only joking!!)

Graham