Re: [OT] please ditch the attachments

FROM : Dave Gomez
DATE : Fri Nov 01 16:49:01 2002

On 11/1/02 11:54 AM, "Ben Kennedy" <<email_removed>> wrote:

> On 01,11,02 at 1:46 pm -0500, Martin-Gilles Lavoie wrote:
>

>> These attachments are automatic by some e-mailers.

>
> Bad design.  (Wouldn't you be a tad miffed if I sent a JPEG image of my
> face with everything I wrote, just for the hell of it, and blamed my
> mailer for it?)
>

>> Besides, it's not like the file contains kilobytes of data. The
>> mime-encoded vCard takes a few dozen bytes at most.

>
> My issue was not with the space they occupy, it was with having to delete
> them manually from my filesystem.



wait a minute, aren't you now blaming your mailer (or conversely your
reader), of having shortcomings, and want someone else to change the way
they do things to accommodate you?
    maybe it's time for a better behaved email reader?


dg