Forum Archive Index - December 1999

[Phil Eriksen <phil@acepay.co.nz>]

tennyson@caverock.net.nz wrote:

> >
> Dear Sharechat,
> 
> I applaud your initiative for 'Daily E-mail News', but I believe your
> proposed execution of this service is outrageous.
> 
>  Surely you should be sending your e-mail news as text only?    Only
> yesterday you unsubscribed someone for sending bounce messags and
> cluttering up this forum.   Yet you are now proposing to waste
> bandwidth on 'pretty' text which seems to me to be a far worse sin.
>  If you want'pretty' just post a web reference for the  subscribers.
> 
> But to push feed the group a diet of HTML is IMHO just not on.   We
> all pay for each download we make (if not on a time basis directly,
> then indirectly through reduced bandwidth and increased connect
> times) and your proposal offers a 300% increase in overhead for
> almost no gain in quality.
> 
> I urge you to rethink your execution of this proposal. SNOOPY

I generally lurk but reply I must.  While im no great fan of fancy
pictures and long waits, Sharechat is a completely free service, with
limited advertising content.  Im guessing the "real reason" the e-mail
news will be HTML is to encourage advertisers to feature in it.  This is
fine with me - im getting enjoyable content, completely free - putting
up with slightly larger emails and the occasional ad is the least I can
do.

Sharechat is a useful service, and it isn't costing you a dime.  If you
can't handle a little HTML with perhaps a few ads, maybe you should pay
someone to convert the daily e-mail news into straight text and email it
to you.  Perhaps then you will see the cost of supplying the service,
and appreciate the fact that it is costing you zilch.

Cheers,
Phil

(Be happy, and smile, you ain't living in Ethiopia, and HTML never
killed anyone :> )

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