DOS in LINUX

[SteVe Cook]

James Takac wrote:
> On Saturday 16 June 2007 01:27:45 George Farris wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-14-06 at 20:46 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>> Bruce Marshall wrote:
>>>> As do I   (dump html emails)  and I am sure a lot of others do too.
>>> I just view all emails text.  Doesn't save bandwidth (no real need for
>>> me), but I don't have to deal with the crap either.
>>>
>>> Matt Flaschen
>> What the are you talking about, of course it saves bandwidth.  A simple
>> text email consisting of 100 characters turns into over 400 + the
>> original 100.  My math says, that is 5 times bigger, multiplied by
>> however many thousands are on the email list and you end up with an
>> incredible waste of bandwidth.
>>
>> html mail = bad plain and simple
> 
> actually the html mail is just text. The bandwith is in any images and such 
> that might be linked in the mail most times. And that can be overcome on 
> various mail clients by telling them not to view them as html. Just leaves 
> the messy html tags which are text littering the mail
> 
> 
Actually it's 0s & 1s and html formatted mail sends a lot more of them. 
  Even if you tell your email to ignore the html it still gets sent to 
you using up your band width and taken longer to arrive.

SteVe