Michael Leone on Fri, 4 Oct 2002 11:01:29 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Re: PLUG - The Happy Fun List!


Paul said:
>>
>>
>> Pretty pictures, stylized text, animated GIFs, background colors....
>> whatsamatta you?   :)
>
>
> Communication.  Data and style.  What's wrong with it?  I guess file
> attachments are bad too?

Weeellll ... to a mailing list, probably. Ya never know if it's some
virus/worm generated thing, and you might get infected somehow (less of an
option with us *nix types, but still ...); there's always that wasted
bandwidth issue; and some folks (not usually in the U.S., however) pay by
the connection minute, so forcing them to download an attachment that they
may not want, just to read a post on a mailing list, is somewhat rude.

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