Don's head is upside-down.
Who cares what the sender is up to? There's still people on dialup here,
that he doesn't give a jot for.
I back the Nick/geek view, that simple is good. Text is enough (Word
Processor? - what for?). Which is where Ben's coming from too. Here's
another logical reason:
You have to draw the line somewhere. 3-K? 5-K? Why not just save us all
the brainache, just for once, and stick with Usenix-like convention -
0-K of attachments are what treats most people nicest.
Here's another reason:
When this thread broke out I was on webmail, which I frequently do to
ping the spam before POP takes the time to retrieve it (reducing said
time). How to I know what is spam to delete? Tricky. But the surest
guide is the scrawny little paper clip icon alongside. Funny that - how
apt!: "What do you want me to do today?"
Easy. BUGGER OFF TROLL!
We have to ask why this issue is so important to this particular user.
His convenience is not ours. Quite the opposite in fact.
Ben Devine wrote:
On 7/11/06, *Don Gould* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Personally I don't care about attachments. My mail is all pooled into
my local server from 8 pop accounts on different servers around the
world and then I use IMAP mail readers on any one of my 6 machines. I
have a 3.5mbit connection to the net with a 10gb cap so I don't care
much about the data the odd attachment causes and I also have
filtering
on the primary servers to remove rubish before my local server
downloads it.
I Would say the bigger issue is the list server.
User A sends a 10kB attachment. The server then resends that to the
300?+ subscribers.
Thats an easy 3mb. For something that isnt needed.
Thats what I consider a waste of $$ considering Xtra charges 20c/mb(?)
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