>> Regarding today's internet capabilities, down- and upload rates,
>> harddrive sizes, possible message attachment sizes it seems a lot more
>> up to date to show message sizes in Kilobytes (at least) or even
>> Megabytes (adequately rounded). Maybe this could be made customizable
>> via Preferences.
> One mail should not be more greater than 10Mb, so I think the current
> way of show the size of the emails it's correct.
However it'd be nice if all people were bytes and sizes aware, your
argument is the typical mistake of many IT people. Similar with your
decision on behalf of everyone else on how many pixels do and do not hurt.
Something "should" be one way, so we simply ignore the mostly different
reality ("I am not handling that, no one has any business doing it that way").
The problem with this approach is, that if you are writing an application
for users (normal people out there, you know), you can hardly tell them that
they or their mail contacts are morons (technically, of course you can, but
you'll be doing it at jobs changing in a fast pace).
If there are people sending me mails of 10, 20 or 30 MB (this are
realistic sizes I have witnessed and I have no illusions regarding other
people not seeing much bigger ones), there is no reason to have a column that
contains 8 and more digits and be forced to count them in 3somes to find out the
mail sizes.
So, if, optionally, the display could say 2,4 kB and 15,8 MB, I personally
would be all for it.
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