Re: [cobalt-users] More wasted bandwidth because of COBALT

[Kris Dahl <krislists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 9/26/00 7:12 PM, Cody Watkins at codyw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Thank you cobalt for upgrading to a newer version of mailman! (sarcasm)
> 
> It probably works great on your end, but sucks on mine. It adds about 10
> NEW lines to the header of each message that I get from the list (as of 1
> am on Sept 26th). Take a look below at the new header lines:

What purpose to they serve?  Are they for search engines or something?
Seems to be fairly redundant to have it on each message.

> Cobalt, please downgrade back to Mailman version 1.1 instead of version
> 2.0beta6 !!!!! Or disable these stupid lines in the configuration area!
> 
> Thanks for costing me more for bandwidth each month.

I am sick of hearing about people whine about bandwidth.  You realize that
the lines add only about 500 bytes to a email, so you would be racking up an
extra 50k per day at most.  If you are concerned about 50k of bandwidth,
you've got bigger problems than email headers.  Simply loading a single web
page that you normally would load in IE or Netscape load it in lynx--do this
once a day (on say Amazon.com) and you'll save your precious bandwidth.

I'm all about not having unnecessary content removed from the headers.  But
I think the question should be WHY is it necessary, and if it is NOT then we
should remove it.  But not because it 'wastes' a few precious bytes of
bandwidth.

BTW: At the going *retail* price of about $10.00 a gig the added bandwidth
will cost you approximately $.015 a month.  That is less than two cents a
month.  Hell, I'll mail you a dollar and have you covered for the next five
years.  You can see why the bandwidth argument isn't much of an argument.

-k