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malcolm said:
> "Dirk Moolman" <DirkM@mxgroup.co.za> wrote in message
> news:<cdgkqn$fe3$1@news.xmission.com>...
>> This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>>
>> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C46D98.AF4030B7
>> Content-Type: text/plain;
>> charset="iso-8859-1"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>
>> I keep getting reminded that I am using mime, but people on the mailing
>> =
>> list.
>>
>> =20
>>
>> I do not have control over the mail I send out from my exchange server.
>> =
>> Due to the spam filter being used, the mail gets converted to MIME after
>> =
>> I hit the "send" button - even if I specify it to be text ...... :-(
>>
>> =20
>>
>> So I do apologise, but my mail won't send text.
>>
> (much more snipped)
>
> Dirk, I appreciate the problem. I recently replied to a message from
> a non-standard mail interface and found that I had accidentally sent
> MIME and also that I had cross-posted to a number of lists. And the
> abuse I received addressed to me personally and not to the list(s) had
> to be seen to be believed. I know that mime takes a lot more
> bandwidth but the action of telling peoiple about it also uses a lot
> of bandwidth. I often think that many people on the internet are too
> concerned with a sense of their own importance and they don't think
> about those of us who don't spend all day waiting for a message to
> make fun of or ridicule.

That would be me, then. I definitely have nothing better to do than sit
here all day waiting for a message to make fun of or ridicule. And God
knows, I am the most important person on the newsgroup.

I certainly have nothing better to do than wait for people who post
megabyte-sized posts with a trivial amount of content. And of course, the
fact that there are thousands and thousands of NNTP servers around the
world that get clogged up with absolute crud because people don't care
about posting HTML doesn't ramp up the problem to any great degree, does
it? Or the fact that, what, 15000 people might have to download a couple
of hundred K instead of a couple of K?

Let's put this into perspective, Malcolm, if 15000 people send a 1K
message moaning about a needless 100K download they had to do, they are
still only wasting 1% of the bandwidth that the original poster wasted.
And they wouldn't get 15000 emails of complaint, would they? Nor is the
original poster paying for the hundreds of megabytes of disk that they are
needlessly wasted around the world. Disk is cheap anyway, so it doesn't
matter if they waste disk on other people's kit, does it?

It is probably unfair and harsh to have a go at someone for their first
MIME post, however, if you weren't looking for it, you might not notice it
and you might not fix it. Your client is posting it and will presumably
hide it from you, so you wouldn't know.

> And often these same people take on a different persona on the
> internet. Yor never really know who you are talking to.

And using a name like "Dave Appleton" or whatever guarantees you know who
you're talking to, does it? Anyway, what difference does it make who tells
you that you're posting MIME?

--
Bye now,
Obnoxio

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