Excerpts from mail: 29-Dec-91 Re: Another MIME test Einar
Stefferud(_at_)nma(_dot_)com (498)
Well, I can make
sense of what I can read, but I sure don't like
paying
to transfer 56k bytes that I cannot read. I do not wnat to do
this very often, to receive and read a 1k byte message! I
can only
hope that this kind of use does not generally
explode upon the world
at large without a transition
period.
I ceratinly hope that your signature file
will not become a regular
50k byte attachment!
Well this message is probably more typical -- I'm responding to it in
normal Andrew fashion, so it will use rich text, but I'm not including my 50K
signature file. So a better question is, are you reasonably happy with THIS
message?
I suspect that "abuses" like my previous message (although
since my previous message was a deliberate test, I guess I can't really call
it an abuse) will become somewhat more common with the advent of MIME. I also
suspect that as the available bandwidth for most people increases, it will
gradually become less of an issue. That there will be problems of etiquette
-- i.e. when is it appropriate to send such messages and to whom -- is
inevitable. Frankly, I've been looking forward to the day when the technical
hurdles are overcome and permit such problems to come about! -- Nathaniel