On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:34:43PM -0600, Dave Sherohman wrote: >On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:23:02PM -0600, DACross at nwc.edu wrote: >> I figured it was the frames of Notes' email client that Munir was referring >> to. I wrote my message part in jest and part in unbelief that a couple of >> pipes and dashes would cause such a stir. What are we talking about here, >> maybe 100 extra characters? That comes up to about 800 bits which leaves a >> good amount of headroom before I've even added 1kbs to the modem's >> transaction. Oh well. Let's not start this silly discussion again please. > >As was related here very recently (last week?), the problem isn't >bandwidth. The problem is visual noise. It's a pain in the ass to >have to filter out meaninglessly quoted text or craptacular ascii art I would like to ask permission to use the word "craptacular", it's a fantastic word that I think I could get a great deal of use out of in my line of work. >- especially when it exceeds 80 columns or has something that >resembles potentially meaningful content embedded within it. -- Ben Lutgens http://people.sistina.com/~blutgens/ Sistina Software Inc. (mail -s "get -info" blutgens-info at sistina.com) for my gpg key, IM info etc. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020402/6f189d10/attachment.pgp