Subject: RE: draft-purser-pppext-pppcn-00.txt

From: "Kevin Purser (QA/EMC)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 09:55:47 -0500

> 
> > > That's a good point.  How many extra RTTs and bandwidth were spent
> > > on sending that introductory message as both text/plain and as
> > > quoted-printable--text/html and then attaching the proposal as
> > > quoted-printable?  It emphasizes my point about the oddity of
> > > worrying about 4 or 6 extra PPP packets at the start.
> >
> > Ok, ok.  I should have known my new company PC's M$ installation
> > would send HTML messages by default- my apologies.
> 
> But what about the more interesting point of the problem you 
> are trying
> to solve?  If it makes sense to use Micrstupid style bloated 
> email (next
> comes the 200 or 400 extra lines of XML mail cruft from new 
> installations
> of Exchange), why does it make sense to worry about a few PPP bits?
> 

Because I'm not sending you the email to your cellphone, over a cellular link with much higher latency characteristics than the physical wire.  Sorry- thought that was obvious.

Kev

> 
> Vernon Schryver    [email-masked]
> 
> P.S. while you're taming your Microstupid infestation, it wouldn't
>   hurt to try to convince it to use ~70 character lines.
>