Are we talking about the link that folks put at the bottom of their signature?
and are you stating Miq that this is not acceptable?
I understand the logic behind not attaching a picture, but just a link to
a photo is just basically another line of text. What makes this different
than providing a link to a web site in the body of the message. wayne
At 08:20 AM 8/1/00 -0700, you wrote:
>Allen Coblentz says:
>>
>> How 'bout these new "signature pics" that have been turning up a the
bottom of
>> list members e-mails? Are these html formatted?....and the pictures, isn't
>> that considered an "image"? Hey, I'm not complaining, I'd like to use one
>> also,...but I don't want to 'break the rules.' The rules are there for a
>> reason, and if this can be harmful to the list, let's clear it up before a
>> problem arises.
>> They do look great, though! If there is no problem, it would be a great
>> 'identifier' for everyone on the list.
>
>[answer CC:'d to oletrucks for everyone to get]
>
>Here's how this list works:
>
>You send a message to one address, oletrucks@autox.team.net
>
>Majordomo takes your message and looks at the list membership, currently
>we are at 823 members in the combined list+digest, and makes a copy of the
>message for each member's email address.
>
>Then Majordomo runs through all those copies and sends out each one.
>
>I've been watching the traffic on "Rob's smaller list" and notice that each
>signature message adds about 350-400 lines of text. This message here that
>I am sending is about 50 lines long, and pretty typical. With the high
>speed connections at most homes today this extra bandwidth (about 8 times)
>may not seem like much, and on an individual basis you would be right.
>
>However there is a very important point here: remember what I said about
>how the list works? The server for majordomo has to make 823 copies of
>everything and then process those 823 messages for each single message you
>make. It's not the network speed that is the issue here, its the
>processing on the system. The server is also running 60 other lists with
>similar user bases.
>
>So lets do a bit of math here.....
>
> Allow images to list Keep list text only
>Message length 450 60
>* 80 characters 36000 4800
>* 823 members 29628000 3950400
>
>Quick interjection of a question here: which would you rather download to
>get to oletrucks information, a 29 megabyte file or a 4 megabyte file?
>
>* 60 mailing lists 1777680000 (1.8 Gigabytes) 237024000 (234 Meg)
>
>Another quick interjection: now which file would you rather download?
>
>End of math lesson.
>
>Remember that many of the images are actually much larger, like in the
>35000-40000 line length, or roughly 100 times the size I was using in the
>example. I'll leave that equation to the reader.
>
>So to make a long answer short: yes those nifty image sigs are HTML, and
>yes they are Images, and yes they are verbotten on Oletrucks.
>
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>Miq Millman miq@teleport.com
>Tualatin, OR
>oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
>
Wayne Osborne
1956 Chevy Pickup
LaGrange Ga.
http://www.chevytrucks.org/users/wayne
oletrucks is devoted to Chevy and GM trucks built between 1941 and 1959
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