Re: face headers on mail to the list
On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 21:41:37 -0400, Douglas A Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> said:
> However, if we go with the question "if everybody did it", then what
> proportion of bandwidth for debian list would be taken up with "Face"
> headers. Would this be significant for someone downloading over a
> slow (or very slow) link. Right now I'm on dialup at about 2 KB/s and
> its $9.99 per month for unlimited time. What if I was on a sailboat
> and/or in northern Canada (outside of a community with a sat ground
> station) on either an M-sat box (?2400 baud) or on HF (shorwave) at
> 300 baud (or less) and perhaps paying per KB?
Then threads like this would mean that you would probably not
want to subscribe to the mailing list. Also rampant quoting, ling isgs,
spam on the list (or so I am told) -- all kinda overwhelm the Face
header.
> How does this mesh with, for example, debian's thought-paradigms for
> deciding if something is free. e.g. the desert-island paradigm where
> you can't be required to send in a license fee. Well, the desert
> island will only have M-sat or HF (well, I suppose you may have a
> meridian phone, but I think its limited to 9600 too).
Debian does not send out mail with face headers or large
signatures. People do.
manoj
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You mean now I can SHOOT YOU in the back and further BLUR th'
distinction between FANTASY and REALITY?
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> <http://www.golden-gryphon.com/>
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