18 Oct
2005
18 Oct
'05
1:56 a.m.
Matt Parker matt@mpcontracting.co.uk
Depends what you mean by bloat. You'd have to have written an enormous e-mail to even notice the extra bandwidth. In the old days of 640Kb RAM, 1.44Mb floppies, and 9600 baud modems maybe I'd agree with you, but nowadays, I just can't see that it makes any difference.
YES! I want to waste space on everyone's hard disks and the network. Please rush me my guide to how to send my emails with unnecessary Content-Transfer-Encodings as a base64'd ASCII text file.
[...] Do you find that people have trouble reading UTF-8? [...]
Not anyone who needs to read it. I don't use it unecessarily, and translators are well-known among the target audience.
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