On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:48:29PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:41:56 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Ron, > > > On 04/07/08 05:44, Brad Rogers wrote: > > > That's X-Face. Face can be colour. > > I guess we'd better ask OP for clarification! > > Doug. over to you.... :-) > > OTOH, either will come out as gibberish in a text-only MUA.
Well, the Face header is one long unwrapped line and it is gibberish in mutt. Luckily, there's "ignore Face" in my ~/.muttrc, but I still have to download it. Not a big deal right now. However, if we go with the question "if everybody did it", then what proportion of bandwidth for debian list would be taken up with "Face" headers. Would this be significant for someone downloading over a slow (or very slow) link. Right now I'm on dialup at about 2 KB/s and its $9.99 per month for unlimited time. What if I was on a sailboat and/or in northern Canada (outside of a community with a sat ground station) on either an M-sat box (?2400 baud) or on HF (shorwave) at 300 baud (or less) and perhaps paying per KB? How does this mesh with, for example, debian's thought-paradigms for deciding if something is free. e.g. the desert-island paradigm where you can't be required to send in a license fee. Well, the desert island will only have M-sat or HF (well, I suppose you may have a meridian phone, but I think its limited to 9600 too). Just a thought. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
