It's like that old idea about "if everyone who visited the Grand
Canyon through a stone in, pretty soon it would fill up".
[Fauver, James] snip
> > E-mail is text based and uses very little disc space unless graphics
> or
> > downloads are attached...
[Fauver, James] snip
> > Bandwidth? shandwith... This is all text based... You save maybe
> 150 bits.
> > Ain't worth it... Now, if it were graphics based, that would suck up
> some
> > power....
>
> Its not the bandwidth of the line that is getting wasted to any
> signifigant
> degree... its the bandwidth of the reader. I get several hundred
> emails per
> day and I too hate to wade through reams of old material just to get
> to the
> new stuff, and 99% of readers on all mailing lists agree. Its ok to
> quote
> previous messages, but only quote the relevant portions and always
> delete
> the signatures.