Re: [Way OT] Re: GMAIL Invites..!
On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 08:24:10 -0500, Rodney Richison
<rodney@rcrcomputing.com> wrote:
> >
> I run a list for techs/consultants. (ChannelVar.com)
> They are a VERY qualified bunch of guys. (Admittedly not linux users
> though) :)
> The preferred method is top posting.
> The preferred format is to allow html.
Qualified they may be, but the sheer *waste* in what you are
describing seems appalling.
Why choke up bandwidth with <tag> rubbish which all too often adds
very little to the actual discussion. Anything technical can usually
be best described with raw text, anything which needs bells and
whistles can be dealt with by linking to a static web-page. If it
isn't signal, then it is noise.
The growth in band-width waste with the development of broadband
services is probably the most regrettable trend of recent years.
pace the whole GMail issue - I use it for mailing lists, for pretty
much the same reasons to do with wastage. I simply cannot afford the
bandwidth to download much of the crud which populates mailing-lists -
Google Inc. can. They also provide a means for me to scan and search
the lists, looking for what I want or need.
Private email is handled elsewhere, without the issues alluded to
earlier in this thread.
Just my 2c.
--
Daniel Goldsmith.
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