Re: am I just old fashioned... or?

On 6/01/2011 11:32, Daniel Pittman wrote:
 > On Jan 5, 2011 4:03 PM, "david" <[email protected]
 > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
 >  >
 >  > I just received a commercial email (from an arborist.. I need some
 > tree work done).
 >  >
 >  > It contained 250 characters of useful information, including spaces.
 >  >
 >  > The message as sent was 1,133,681 bytes.
 >  >
 >  > The excess was a combination of AppleMail generated html and css and
 > a tiff (!) business card the contents of which exactly duplicated the
 > 250 characters mentioned above.
 >
 > This sort of waste is still a waste - many devices (like the one I am
 > writing this on) have worse connectivity than a machine of five years 
back.
 >
 > I would guess in this case that the HTML and support data only
 > contributed a handful of KB to the message, and the real evil was
 > sending a TIFF business card - and all that was caused by someone who
 > has no idea what is or isn't technically appropriate needing a computer
 > to carry out business in the modern world.

And software written for another age.  When isn't it a good idea to 
substitute a png for a tiff?

Adelle.

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