There has been a friendly debate about the extra burden placed on servers and network connections by large email attachments. Resources can be scaled up to accommodate the changing needs of users. Equipment and software is usually cheaper than human time.
Take the 100 messages a day for this list alone, and figure out how much is junk or requires additional human effort just to read the message. Digital signatures, encryption, and .TXT attachment instead of writing messages within the body of an email. (1) These take additional human effort to open the attachments or accept the signature key....I am deleting these message more often than reading them. (2) The signatures, and random thoughts/quotes take up bandwidth and message space. En masse, figure 25-50% junk for each message). (3) Security precautions like encrypting/signing messages in a public forum with thousands of messages is a bit presumptious. Why do I want your key? I'd sooner toss those posts...two lines of reply and a dozen lines of signatures and quotes. Before the flames start, I'm not trolling for responses here. I'm just seeing a lot of admins complaining about "ignorance" on the part of their wasteful users. Physician, heal thyself! ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
