Re: [Sheflug] B0rked email clients

["Barrie Bremner" <nospam [at] barriebremner.com>]

Alex Hudson writes:
 > On 27 Mar 2001 18:39:02 +0100, Barrie Bremner wrote:
 > > And because you're sitting on a fat pipe....
 > 
 > 
 > . my policy hasn't changed since I moved from my 9600baud mobile link,
 > no :-)

 > 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 use SSH to portforward and compress...it's not the size that gets
me (HTML email ain't that big) although attachments that make the
email 1000% of the size it could be, but actually contain *less* info
than the body of the email, and force me to waste time downloading and
reading them gets my goat. 

Baz.
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