Re: [Sheflug] B0rked email clients

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] btinternet.com>]

* Alex Hudson (home [at] alexhudson.com) wrote:
> 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.
> 


I dont mind HTML mail so much, partly because I dont read it, and it
doesnt use a lot of space / bandwidth anyway.

but people will put pictures, and javascript, and all that stuff in
there, and occaisionally people actually expect me to read it :-)

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