[Coco] drive crash

Gene Heskett gheskett at wdtv.com
Fri Feb 6 15:44:47 EST 2015


On Friday, February 06, 2015 02:15:39 PM Dave G4UGM wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Coco [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On Behalf Of Nick
> > Marentes
> > Sent: 06 February 2015 19:04
> > To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
> > Subject: Re: [Coco] drive crash
> > 
> > On 7/02/2015 2:52 AM, Allen Huffman wrote:
> > > Gotta blame the tools. Outlook, etc. started it, and it's hard to
> > > fight the tools. If every tool was a hammer, you'd only want nails,
> > > right?
> > 
> > That can be turned off in most cases can't it?
> 
> If you reply to an HTML formatted mail, in HTML format then its not
> possible to do in-line replies. Outlook won't let you insert a comment
> in a sensible way. If you add bars down the LHS then when you instert
> text it won't let you remove the bar for the inserted text. It sometimes
> looks like you have done so, but you havn't
> 
> > It's good that it copies the message so that you can reference your
> > reply to the previous comments otherwise no-one knows what you're
> > talking about. It's really up to people to cut out the parts that are
> > irrelevant to the reply.
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > 
I usually trim the html crap  100%.  Except for the windows people that 
think its cute to send all that fancy stuff and  don''t klnow how to turn it 
off, AND aren't interested in learning how because its pretty on their 
screen.  But it will often quaduple the size of a 10 line message they are 
sending and don't care!

There are still places on this planet where that wasted bandwidth can amount 
to a huge penalty for that user when he goes to pay his net bill even if he 
is paying for it in scrawny chickens.  

We should be ashamed of ourselves.

Nick, you made a comment quite a few years back about the net bandwidth for 
the internet getting to Aussie land wasn't much faster than a telephone 
modem because it was passing thru the original Telstar satellite. I'd assume 
there are better birds out there now, but  did any of the big boys ever lay 
in a mutlicore fiber cable?

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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