[Ubuntu-l10n-eng] (no subject)

[Toby Smithe]

On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 23:44 +0100, William Anderson wrote:
> Toby Smithe wrote:
> > [snip]
> > 
> > I don't know. I was only offering a win-win suggestion. However, maybe
> 
> It wasn't the fact it was a GIF or PNG, it was the presence of a graphic in
> a textual email, full stop :)
> 
> > Mr. Anderson has a slow internet connection, and doesn't want to
> > download your picture. I can't see that being the case, as it is
> > possible (thanks to the magic of MIME encoding) to ignore any
> > attachments, be they in-line or not.
> 
> It's just good netiquette.  I'm on an 8 meg broadband connection, and my
> connection between my IMAP server and my IMAP client is 100 meg full duplex
> fast ethernet.  That's neither here nor there, because I may decide to read
> my email over a GPRS connection, and having to download 37 kilobytes to get
> 37 bytes of additional information to the conversation is a bit rude.  As I
> said, this is isn't personal taste, this is netiquette.  I'm not being nasty
> about it - I could be a real prick and hurl unnecessary ad hominem insults
> around the place, but there's no need for this at all - just pointing out
> that someone else may get really arsey about it.  :)

I agree with you on those points. However, as I wrote, I was trying to
offer a win-win situation. But yeah; I agree.
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