Image attachments and dialup

[Alexander Skwar]

· Alan McKinnon <alan at linuxholdings.co.za>:

> On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 15:16 +0200, Ouattara Aziz wrote:
>> >> As it happens, I now have a decent connection, but when I was on dialup
>> >> this kind of thing drove me crazy!
>> > 
>> > Wouldn't it be great, if ALL attachments were filtered automatically?
>> > This way, we also wouldn't have to suffer from the HTML junk people,
>> > especially from googlemail, send out :|
>> > 
>> 
>> To filter anything like that could cause problems. Imagine a simple guy 
>> looking for help, and the mail doesn't reach cause he is using HTML 
>> mails. Won't he be frustrated ? If we could automatically send back a 
>> warning mail telling him not to do so, and explaining how to do it right 
>> , it would be nice. Their emails can even be rejected BUT the system 
>> shouldn't forget to send them the reason AND the way to fix it.
> 
> HTML mail isn't much of a problem, on most messages it's another 2-3k or
> so,

Well, HTML mails are often at least twice as large as the plain text 
version - for, mostly, *no* added benefit. But the *real* problem of
HTML mails for me is, that they are somewhat harder to read than plain
text messages.


> And when we've got that implemented nicely, can we please get back on
> track inventing the TopPostOblitoRay? The one that hunts down and
> brutally massacres anyone who dares top-post? 

You're right! And those full quoters. No matter if they are top posters
or bottom posters.

Alexander Skwar
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