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GMANE provides an alternative service for most mailing lists. c.f. bug 424647
On 10 Dec 2005, at 01:54, Eric Bliss wrote:
> Okay, I lied, there's one more point. It doesn't apply to me, but
> there are
> plenty of people who it does apply to - not everybody who
> subscribes to these
> lists has a broadband internet connection. And depending on how
> many of
> these lists they subscribe to, and how active they are, the "double
> size" of
> HTML posts can become a serious problem for their individual
> connections.
Also consider those of use who use something like GPRS on a day-to-
day basis. We generally pay by the byte while we're on the move so
have a very good reason to trash these heavy emails. My regular MUA
can't even process HTML; why would I pay extra to read a load of
angled brackets?
Yours,
Craig
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