DOS in LINUX

[James Takac]

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