But that's primitive; I've over 17 gigabytes spare on my hard disk (in a
2000 computer) and I'm sure many of you have much more. My internet connects
at 500 kilobits per second, so it'll shift a 19kb file in 0.3 seconds. And
if you're receiving gobbledegook, doesn't that mean that your system has the
problem, not mine! Should we really be held back to the lowest common
denominator, in terms of capacity, rather than moving forwards?
AF
----- Original Message -----
From: "Helen Deborah Vecht" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: Viruses/worms
> The message <004001c270a8$2a8d11a0$7bb1c150@AdrianFogarty>
> from Adrian Fogarty <[log in to unmask]> contains these words:
>
> > Being somewhat illiterate, in computer terms, can someone explain why
HTML
> > is a problem?
>
> > AF
>
> It takes up much more band width for no more content.
>
> Those of us who don't use HTML get two versions, one with plain text and
> one with text interspersed with many 'non printing' characters, making
> it almost undecipherable. I don't like receiving gobbledygook.
>
> Plain text is remarkably economical of bandwidth and discspace on your
> computer (this mail is about 1kb) HTML is bulkier and a Word document
> starts at 19kb.
>
> --
> Helen D. Vecht: [log in to unmask]
> Edgware.
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