Tony \"omega\" Sergi wrote: > > Sure, you got a little extra traffic, but, it's unlikely unless > you use hotmail it would have posed an actual problem.
Hmm, I wanted to stay out of this, but I'll have to comment on that one as I feel it might be interesting to you or someone else. Suche unnescessarily huge mails do pose problems (just like HTML emails, too huge without added information). Maybe not for you but it does for others. And also if those do not use Hotmail (which I don't). I like to archive my emails. It's a personal preference, wanting to be able to browse through old emails at a later time, maybe because I want to look up a discussion of remember someone having solved a problem already which I did encounter. Archiving emails takes up storage space. That may not be a problem until you have a high volume email traffic. For example my current archive (which doesn't include all emails, but most) amounts to over 245MB. I know that people tend to have 80GB harddisks today with only one partition on them. I do not. Which is of course my own problem. I still find it noteworthy that with a bit of email discipline this could be reduced to maybe 20% or less. Well, okay, you're probably saying "get a larger/second disk". But then the next thing is that some people do have email accounts with limited inbox space. I do. I usually use POP3 to get my emails and remove old ones from the server from time to time. But I also happen to not to be able to do so for some longer periods of time a few times during the year. Maybe a two week holdiay. Or being away for a week over Christmas. For most people that is not much of a problem. But again for some it can be. It is for me. Because I can be sure that my inbox will overflow after ten days max. Which means I start to lose emails. Which is not a nice thing. If people would quote differently and not send HTML emails, this period could be three, four, five times as long and I could go on holidays or visit my parents without being constantly worried that I get home and lost half of the emails I got during that time. I know, you can again say it's my own problem, I could simply pay more money to get a larger inbox. Don't, I know that myself. That is not my point. My point is that maybe it would be worth a second to think about how we treat people when we send them emails. If we stick to whatever MS thought would be good for Office communication and thus build into Outlook as the default and leave it to the receipient to adapt to that, forcing him to upgrade his disk, account, whatever or change his email storing behaviour. Or if we spend the extra little thought about our partners in email communication and take that extra little time, e.g. to edit quotes. For those who consider this a valid point, writing emails also has something to do with politeness, courteousness and repsect IMHO. But of course you are free to tell me that it is my own problem and you would be right. Or to disagree or ignore this. I don't want to discuss it. I just wanted to bring it up for those who haven't look at this side of the discussion. Excuse me for taking your time with an off-topic email about an too often discussed subject. I'll shut up about it now again. Florian _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
