On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 01:23:02PM -0600, DACross at nwc.edu wrote: > I figured it was the frames of Notes' email client that Munir was referring > to. I wrote my message part in jest and part in unbelief that a couple of > pipes and dashes would cause such a stir. What are we talking about here, > maybe 100 extra characters? That comes up to about 800 bits which leaves a > good amount of headroom before I've even added 1kbs to the modem's > transaction. Oh well. As was related here very recently (last week?), the problem isn't bandwidth. The problem is visual noise. It's a pain in the ass to have to filter out meaninglessly quoted text or craptacular ascii art - especially when it exceeds 80 columns or has something that resembles potentially meaningful content embedded within it. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Tom Swiss