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On Mon, 6 Jun 2022, Doug W wrote:
Jack's very valid point about server usage aside, I highly recommend you go to /g/BITX20/editsub and change your email deliveryI agree with these sentiments. For most of the 90's I was stuck with dialup service while the public use of the Internet was exploding. The developers and 'Influencers' all seemed to have unlimited broadband access, so they accelerated the use of gratuitous graphics, with no concern for the majority of internet users who had 56k or slower intermittent connections at that time. 'Just use Delete' isn't the answer. A large bloated message in your Inbox will hang up your connection until its fully downloaded, and will delay or prevent the delivery of many smaller messages until it is complete. A possible workaround for the user is the IMAP protocol rather than POP3 for mail delivery. IMAP allows for the download of just the index of available messages, so that the user can selectively download them, or delete them on the server unread. Most web browsers have an option to suppress the display of all graphics unless individually requested. I used this as an advertisement blocker for many years. A question for the group administrator: The Groups.io service has many options, including the 'Forum' mode you mention above. I believe it also has a 'files' section reserved for each group, and I've seen some groups encourage its use in preference to attachments. Does Groups.io also have an option to automatically strip attachments from all posted messages, and convert them to links into the groups 'files' section? This would also eliminate the duplicate bloat which happens when users include the images again in their reply messages. Hopefully the threading capability of the forum can also detect and suppress the full quotation of previous messages, which easily becomes its own form of bloat. -- Rick Green, N8BJX |
