text vs html posts on this list...

[Carlos Davila]

T. Ribbrock wrote:

> This is an *international* list. The fact that hard drives and internet
> connections are cheap where *you* live does not mean that this is the
> case for everybody on this list. For example, many people in Europe still
> have metered dial-ups, which means they are paying for every minute they
> are online, so additional size (be it HTML or uncropped quotes) will cost
> them money, especially on a high-traffic list like this one.
> Besides that, even if both resources are "relatively" cheap - why should
> anybody be forced to spend money if he is content with what he had so
> far, at least if it can be as easily avoided as in this case?

Good points Thomas.

CD