>> Viktor,

This  one  is ok.  I guess I thought I did it but didn't.  Getting old
ain't for sissies.

> Well,  I'm  not  sure  how  this  works.   I told TB to send that last
> message  as  Plain  Text (MicroEd), but I see it still arrived as both
> html and text.  This one will too, I guess.

>>> Hello Gleason,

>>> Sunday, December 16, 2018, 3:27:53 PM, you wrote:
>>>>> The splashscreen is nice, honestly - but it doubled the EXE size? Hmm!
>>>> It doesn't seem to matter, unless you are short of ram.  The days of super 
>>>> expensive memory are gone.
>>> This is the unfortunate thinking of today. Just multiply that with
>>> 20 programs and you'll see where it gets you in terms of # uselessly wasted 
>>> RAM.
>>> Similar with Android these days: every meaningless "App" eats its
>>> 60 MB of memory whether it's doing anything or not, totalling to 100% 
>>> memory usage
>>> and laggy phone. Just because "memory is cheap" and other lazy programmer 
>>> thinking.

>> I wouldn't accuse Maxim of being lazy.  In my case, with TB
>> running, I am using 3.68 gb of ram out of 12.  With TB closed
>> I am using 3.5.  I guess I'm not feeling overly impacted.  12 gb of
>> ram is not especially high end these days.  

>> And, once again, thanks Maxim for the high quality tastefully done
>> images.  I bet it took some effort to acquire them.

>>> The days of chasing every kilobyte are gone, but just doubling the
>>> program between minor versions sound strange to me too.

>> Unless you understand how that happened.  In this case, the images
>> will be gone when this year's Christmas version is retired.

>>> BTW., this is a plaintext list, if nothing else then by custom.
>>> Would you mind replying to plaintext mails in in plaintext? Yeah, another 
>>> "old times"
>>> legacy. But it also eases quoting - or much more doesn't kill it for 
>>> TheBat! like HTML mails do.

>> Sure, I was too lazy to think about it.  I remember the years of
>> various email client users railing against the
>> useless creeping incursion of html into email.  Pegasus, Becky,
>> many others.  It seems that Sylpheed is the last holdout
>> of any significance.  Change marches on, your perception of whether it is 
>> progress or not will vary.

>> --

>> Gleason




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Gleason


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