There used to be the old programming benchmark of how large a "program" (in lines, as well as compiled bytes) it took to say "Hello, world."
The 21st century benchmark might now well be the size of a "Hello, world" e-mail. Or a web page with a similar statement. Jeff On 2/10/2012 6:46 PM, Rich Kulawiec wrote: > On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:37:01AM -0800, Leo Bicknell wrote: >> Remind me again why we live in this sad word Randy (correcly) described? > Because banks and many other institutions have prioritized all-singing, > all-dancing, bloated, horribly-badly-marked-up HTML email with > "stationary" and logos and pictures and web bugs far, FAR ahead of > security, privacy, accessability, portability and other -ilities that > I'm too lazy to enumerate just now. Besides: it's not like it's *their* > accounts that will get hosed or *their* money that will get lost. > Things like that only happen to the little people. > > See also this related note: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/infowarrior%40attrition.org/msg08436.html > > ---rsk >
