Sig files or quotes exactly like this are what I am refering to. <-- see bottom to whom this is a reply to... Who the puck cares about some dead dude whom I have never heard of????? No I am saying that _some_ of you WHINE about a 1 or 2 K HTML/business card attachement, as a waste of bandwidth...I could care less about a 1 or 2 k file..it takes what...less than a second to grab 1 or 2 K worth of "extra" code???? Which leads me to wonder why no one has written an emailer that doesn't mind HTML...when almost the entire Net is made of HTML (or a derivative of). I would happily take a try at it...but I am not a programmer. another $0.02 worth Jaguar Michael George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 25, Jaguar wrote: > > Wow...a bunch of whiner's!!! (although a 2 MB file is quite large) > > Oh, you think so? Considering most list mail is <3Kb, I'd say 2.8Mb is pretty > dang big! > > > If your ISP connect is so bad ie: crappy ISP, worse phone lines, or a 28.8 > > modem...all of these can be fixed fairly easily...the easiest would be to but > > a $40.00 hardware modem from Cirrus Logic or some other Co., and probably sign > > with a new ISP...even the phone lines can be upgraded if you complain to your > > TelCO enuff. > > How generous of you to spend my money! My old 14.4Kbps modem works just fine > for the vast majority of the mail I get from my ISP. Most of the time I get > my mail while at work (56Kbps), but not in the evenings and on the weekend. > > Besides, why should I upgrade or change anything when the common-sense > netiquette says not to post binary-type info to a textual maling list. Ditto > for the common newsgroups. > > > But some of you even complain about a 1 or 2 K HTML/business card attachment, > > as a "waste of bandwidth"....do some of you have 2400 modems still???? When I > > think that excessively (4 lines of text or more) long sig files or > > advertisments for web pages NOT even your own, or people that add "Ya me too" > > or some such thing to an already long thread, is in reality a total waste of > > everyone's time. I don't really care to see 4 or more lines in a sig file as > > it is usually a banal quote from someone long dead, or even worse...unheard > > of. Some of the sig's I have seen make NO sense what so ever????? > > Wait a minute. Are you saying that 1-2K HTML attachments are just fine, but > .sig files >4 lines are offensive? If that *is* what you are saying, then I > guess to you it all just depends on whose ox is gored. I guess if you hadn't > liked the audio file, then you'd be all up-in-arms against the guy. > > -Michael > > -- > No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it > all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly > the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these > republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it > ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under > every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the > best. > -- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816 ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
