not to mention this list is read world wide and not everyone pay for the
access by the month, some folks still pay a per min connect time and per min
phone bill.
On Monday 16 July 2001 12:43, Van Winssen & Ramaakers wrote:
> Tazmun,
>
> HTML in e-mail doubles the size of an e-mail very often .
> Just imagine how many people are subscribed to this list, and this is A big
> one.
> And one e-mail is copied just as many times , and all this extra data
> nobody needs.
> That what we call spoiled bandwith, no matter what kind of internet
> connection someone has.
> And this is only one mailinglist. Just imagine how many mailinglists are
> active worldwide!
> All those billions of e-mails generated with the extra HTML crap nobody
> needs! Now _that's_ why everybody complains the www is so slow
>
> And off course attachments, and reply's with fully quoted mails...
> I've seen reply's that said only "I agree!" with 5 full former e-mails
> quoted below! That's spoiled bandwith too, specially on big mailinglists.
>
> I subribed on 2 other moderated mailinglists where you will be kicked off
> when you 1- HTMLize, 2- Fully quote 3- send attachments.
> These are nice clean lean mailinglists.
>
> I blame Microsoft for slowing down www because they ship Outlook (Express)
> with HTML switched on by default.
> Anybody knows how many e-mails are written with Outlook every day with HTML
> switched on?
>
> That's my 2 cents,
>
> Gerard
>
> p.s. This is only the size aspect of HTMLized e-mails!
