-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Thomas,
@02 August 2002, 17:06 +0700 (11:06 UK time) Thomas F. [TF] in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] said to Gerard on TBUDL: TF> I pay THB 35/hr (about ¤ 0.80/hr). My average download speed is a low TF> 1KB/sec. With the volume of this list, how much do these headers and TF> footers cost me? Headers: 453 bytes Footers: 322 bytes So, at 1KB/sec that means a .775 second overhead per message to you. That's ¤ 0.000222 per message. When the smallest posting is 2259 bytes and the average looks to be around 3480, 775 bytes added by headers and footers represents a 28.65% average overhead. That is significant. TF> If one posting of average length came in by HTML per day, how much TF> would that cost me? A whole lot more, although HTML is not allowed on this list. G>> As for the footers I would suggest a link to the website with G>> instructions. TF> It is difficult enough to get people to read the footers. Precisely. TF> But at least we haven't had a "unsubscribe" message to the list TF> (followed by long threads consisting of flames and ridicule) for a TF> while. One very good reason for that is that the server is primed to intercept the simpler versions of these and throw the out for moderation. I see quite a few. However, the information in the footer has grown in accordance with requests. This is the information that the consensus of members wanted to see per-message. Let's see what we're saying and what could be expendable (I reject the notion of a link to a list of footer information as being too obtuse a way of conveying it). Current Ver: 1.61 This prevents the FAQ of "I've seen people using version (blah), what's the latest official release". FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Has to be said here as a reminder to where basic information can be found. Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Has to be said here. Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com This could be dispensable, but it's not much bandwidth for a useful link that has every relevance. Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This could go, I suppose. TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This was asked for over and over so we added it. Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/ This could go and is more relevant to TBBETA but it does have some pertinence here. The bottom line is that I sincerely believe there should be a footer but am open to suggestions about what is or is not vital information in it. TF> The probability that people follow links is a lot less than TF> that for reading the footer. I agree although we added the headers because this is the TB list and TB features support for these headers. We *should* use them here, if only to show them off ;-). - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator TB! v1.62/Beta1 on Windows 2000 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 ' -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.1.90-nr1 (Windows 2000) iD8DBQE9Sm4KOeQkq5KdzaARAvGQAKDh+3Tj2MrIGUmL9qFq6W23EofAuACggVJ1 4uCbq9h+j8yEmB5mhvHAZP8= =m8Y9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
