On Thursday April 23 2009, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2009/04/23 12:51 (GMT-0700) John Andersen composed:
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1-the overall load large attachments put on the email system (and the whole internet) generally, not on specific subscribers on slow or metered connections
Preposterous! The bulk of email traffic worldwide is spam, for one thing. Secondly, email attachments use only a vanishingly small portion of "the whole internet's" capacity. Thirdly, intelligent quote trimming would more than make up for any reasonable use of attachments.
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Then too, some admins simply have no grasp or concern for basic conservation or economic concepts. Things on this planet have been getting scarce for quite some time. That includes raw materials required to support the internet backbone, and energy sources that keeping it alive requires. --
While in a very narrow and strict sense information is subject to physical limits that bring it under the influence of economic forces, but for all practical purposes it is not. Load balancing, spare capacity and technological improvements can readily keep supply ahead of demand, and hence keep prices low. Our technology has vast room for improving the ratio of signal bandwidth to energy consumed or matter required. Surely you're aware that the Internet is being increasingly used to stream on-demand video (and not just YouTube quality, either.) This silliness about email attachments is infinitesimal in comparison. (On a lark, I recently watched the 1995 movie "Hackers." The protagonist kids were depicted as all agog over the new 28.8 Kbaud modem one of them had! Woo-hoo!!) Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org