At 06:23 PM 3/15/98 -0500, you wrote:
>need for a company to have a fancy letterhead, nor a mass mailer to have
>colored brochures, nor ladies to have flowered and/or scented stationery,
>yet we do have all these things, and more. Consider how boring text-only,
Note that for most of these, there is no difference to the recipient. It
doesn't take any longer to open a color brochure than one in black and
white, logos don't take up any more space than the text, etc. In terms of
e-mail, it's completely different. Those logos do take up space, color
stuff does take longer to download. (And btw, there are a lot of people
who are very allergic to the scented ads included with Macy's bills, and
even a fair number of us who just get nauseated.)
>not trivial point. Nevertheless, technology marches on, and as cable modems
>(or whatever) become the norm rather than the exception, "waste" of
Really? As of last fall, 80% of americans accessed the net at 14.4Kbps or
less. (According to a speaker at the Bay Area Internet Users Group.) Add
in the rest of the world and that goes way down. Damn yanks, always
thinking nobody else matters!
>public at large. If my wife wants to embed scanned newspaper clippings or a
>kid's picture in an email to her cousin across country, who am I (or anyone)
>to object?
That's a different matter. If I send an e-mail to a potential client
touting my services, that's one thing. To send a message selling used golf
balls to every e-mail address I can find, that's spam.
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