This is indeed a notorious nuisance, and more: in legal terms it's
constraint.
> ... the notorious M$ habit of quoting
> the entire replied post (even a whole digest) back to the
> list in multipart/mixed (HTML) format
Now, there is this far-away correspondent/friend of mine who says he
doesn't know and cannot find how to suppress his M$-mailer's diarrhea.
As my own setup is almost completely M$-free, I have no way to tell
him anything but RTFM - but I suspect it's even more difficult than
that, kind of an almost hidden and uncomfortable procedure to make it
especially cumbersome.
One stupid nastiness of this M$ware seems that apparently people using
these mailers even cannot *see* the whole of what they send out in fact.
Could someone who has one of the M$-mailers give a precise step-by-step
description of how to cut off this reply-attaching ? (Please count
even the number of "clicks" it would need; could be quite instructive.)
(and perhaps mail it off-list)
Some rough calculation: with a daily turnover of about 600 million
emails (think I saw number of daily 6 *billion* lately), and just
supposing one-fourth of them done that way, with the average mail of
3,500 signs getting blown up to 10 K (conservative estimate), about a
trillion signs are shoveled around for just nothing. As these are each
up/downloaded by users respectively, i.e. twice - say, at a good
average speed of 3000 cps -, this means 11 million minutes metered(*)
and paid telco/ISP connection time each day, or about 0.6 million US$
per day *additional* telco fees cashed in daily; just for built-in
trash.
Anyone wonders about them telcos getting so $$$ fattened ?
Half of that is is the mail receivers' money, and they cannot do
anything against it. I'd call that waylay.
// Heimo Claasen // <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> // Brussels 1999-09-19
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(*) averade non-North American per minute fee for local calls
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