At 16:38 31/08/09 -0400, Les Schaffer wrote: > >anyway, please discuss the issues of bandwidth, ease of reading long >online articles, difficulty parsing long posts, etc.
And I just wanted to correct the numbers I threw out before, when I said that the webpage (107KB) was 7 times more data than the same article sent as an email (16KB). It's much worse! I hadn't noticed, but that particular webpage (but again, this is typical) was only the FIRST of 3 containing that article; the other two parts were probably of similar length. Also, the 16KB of the email containing ALL the article's text is only 12KB longer than a one-line email (4KB). So I could safely estimate that someone will use more bandwidth viewing ONE such article on the web than receiving 20 such emails each containing the full text of such an article. (And that is just for someone whose web browser is set not to download images). Having put the bandwidth issue to rest, I will also thank Fred for copying all 3 parts of that article into one email, for MY/OUR convenience! - Jeff ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
