In a message written on Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 11:33:59AM -0400, Randy Bush wrote:
it is easy to generate a lot of bytes. it is hard to generate content. this list is a rekknown example.
Content is in the eye of the viewer. While you may have no use for a spiffy new camera phone, and e-mailing video clips to each other a teenager might value having an e-mail account not provided by their parents where friends can send all the video clips they want without running out of disk space. Just because you use a text e-mail client and don't like your e-mail HTML formatted with 250kb JPEG's as signatures doesn't make you part of the majority (at least, of e-mail users). Sadly, far too many people want to send an HTML formatted message, with embedded company logos and graphical signatures attaching videos, or various Microsoft Office formatted documents (if you want to give it a business spin). To the users, that is all content. To you it is likely bloat. I know many corporate e-mail users (eg, account execs, sending flashy proposals) who would blow through a gigabyte of e-mail in under a month. While I never want such trash to appear in my e-mail box, as a provider of network services I take great pleasure that people want to do that to their e-mail, because in the end it is more bits moving across my network. If google helps people send bigger e-mails, with more attachments and more graphics and so on good for them! More bits for all of us to bill. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/ Read TMBG List - tmbg-list-request@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org