Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:47:30PM +0200, Stefan Nobis wrote:
> >>>>> In article <19990331143820.A29083@rising.com.au>, Hamish Moffatt
> >>>>> <hamish@debian.org> writes:
>
> Hamish> Wrong solution. Users should not have to adapt to technology
> Hamish> (within reason); the technology should allow users to send
> Hamish> huge email attachments if they need to. Otherwise it should be
> Hamish> fixed.
>
> One last point: If i drive a car, i have to stop at a red traffic
> light. Is a car bad technology?
>
> No piece of technology is able to get you rid of thinking.
>
> And your personal freedom ends exactly at the point where the freedom
> of others is cut down.
Sure, but I have absolutely no idea what this has to do with large emails.
I thought the original comment was that in general people should not send
large emails, but rather send URLs. This is in person to person email,
not mailing lists.
> The problem of (huge) attachments or huge mails in general is, that
> the recipient often never asked to get it, but the sender sended it
> without being asked to do.
In the case of mailing lists, I agree. In the case of other mail,
this is not my experience at all.
> think everyone has to see it and so you send it to one mailinglist or
> another, than there are no technical problems -- than your are the
> problem.
Who said anything about mailing lists? I didn't.
Hamish
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