Re: Graphics capability through e-mail - The End
Iskandar Taib (ntaib@copper.ucs.indiana.edu)
Mon, 3 Jun 1996 08:57:05 -0500 (EST)
Kelly & Robin Beecher wrote:
>
> Nelson Hinman wrote:
> >
> > For those of us living, more or less in a text-based world the notion of
> > images flooding into my vailbox gives me the willies.
> >
> >OK - I give up.
>
> I have an unlimited internet account at home for twenty bucks and up
> until this afternoon unlimited access nicely provided by the company
> that I worked for, it never really crossed my mind that people have to
> pay for individual messages or message downloads. I had just thought it
> a cool idea to be able to exchange information that was more than just
> text based.
Problem is that even with unlimited accounts, you'll notice that with
attachments your upload and download times will increase several
fold. And disk space is _always_ limited (though 1 gig drives are
cheap, these days..), especially those will shell and pop mail
accounts.
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