RE: ITV Digital Collapsed!

["Calum Morrell" <calum@xxxxxxx>]

On 25 Apr 2002 at 16:52, Gerard McGovern wrote:
> Not wishing to be a spoil sport, but was it necessary to post that
> binary to everyone?
> 
> G

Personally, I'm very happy he did ... I wonder how long the creator was
sitting on that one before releasing it :-)

> Do you mean the 22k binary that would have taken a user with the
> slowest modem sold in the last 3 years a little over 3 seconds to
> download?

Mark, I'm sorry, but I do have to take issue ... the total email size was
33 which would take a 56k modem in the region of 
4.7142857142857~ seconds to download ;-)

> Well, with the overhead of POP or IMAP, you'd be looking at a
> little longer.

Barely. I think that brings a new definition to nitpicking.

> All I am saying is that the same effect could have been achieved
by
> posting it to the Yahoo! site for the group and emailing the link.

You mean the Yahoo! site that quite a number of us have been unable to
access for some time?

> Mark McCall and Tim Morris agree....
> 'Tis a sign of the Apocalypse :-)

While I'm sure it would appear they agree, I have little doubt they have a
fundamental disagreement of philosophy on the type of piccy 
attached and the colour of the leather in the car of the sender ;-)

I also object to people attaching files unnecessarily to emails, but
frankly the attachement was NOT a problem in it's size. There are 
*regularly* straight text emails posted of a similar size when people
forget to clip during an extended discussion. Perhaps engaging brain 
before hitting send would be a good idea?

And now I'm going to ignore my own advice and hit send anyways :-)

--
Calum Morrell
http://www.drochaid.org

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