Re: [Sheflug] B0rked email clients

[Alex Hudson <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

On 27 Mar 2001 18:39:02 +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
> > I probably will turn wrapping on my mail clients, just to shut the whiners up
> > :) But note, I never complain about what gets sent to me, I accept 
> > word-wrapped, non-word-wrapped, rtf, MIME encoded, HTML, etc. It really 
> > doesn't matter, because my client handles them all perfectly well. I don't 
> > mind attachments, I just don't care. 
> 
> And because you're sitting on a fat pipe....


. my policy hasn't changed since I moved from my 9600baud mobile link,
no :-)

Really, if you can't manage HTML mail, then your dial up is so
pathetically feeble you probably have problems with email full stop :-)
I regularly get 100s of HTML mails a week at home, and granted it's a
56K6, but even so - today's (remaining) 148 emails weigh in at 300k
total (roughly), I probly apt-get at least that every day. I figure I
burn a lot more bandwidth than most as well. 

Seriously, if your link can't handle HTML mail, go and find a provider
who is willing to send you your mail in some compressed format (.gz
springs to mind) - I used to do that with my mobile phone, and it
compresses an absolute treat (HTML or normal, no difference). You then
just use gzip as an incoming mail filter :) I could download all of my
mail in about 2 minutes on a 9600 link - that's probably about 100k on a
good day. 100k of _compressed_ mail is an awful lot.

Cheers,

Alex.
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