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Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it.
From: Octavio Alvarez <octalnanog () alvarezp org>
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2015 11:56:56 -0700
On 09/09/15 06:36, Dovid Bender wrote:
I am trying to understand why the legal babble bothers anyone. Does it give you a nervous twitch? Remind you why you hate legal? It's just text at the bottom of your email.
I've seen it in multiple languages (not necessarily on this list). Furthermore, some mailing lists support HTML and when they send it in HTML it sends two copies. Some others even add a corporate image (sometimes mistakenly huge, sometimes small) to their signature. People do this a lot. If everybody did the same for all messages it would be a huge waste of bandwidth. For servers, because it's 1 byte times N subscriptions. For readers, because people should be able to read this in their mobile devices. For some this means access charges by byte. That's why it's frowned upon in mosts mailing lists and just directly forbidden in others. This is not new at all. Just my two cents. Best regards.
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- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Alan Buxey (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Dovid Bender (Sep 09)
- RE: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Tony Hain (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Oliver O'Boyle (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. John Levine (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Stephen Satchell (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. William Herrin (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. John Levine (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Owen DeLong (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Octavio Alvarez (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Justin M. Streiner (Sep 09)
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- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Larry Sheldon (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Joel Maslak (Sep 10)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Landon Stewart (Sep 10)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. William Herrin (Sep 10)
- RE: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Keith Medcalf (Sep 10)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Mike Hale (Sep 11)
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- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Larry Sheldon (Sep 09)
- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Dovid Bender (Sep 09)
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- Re: Extraneous "legal" babble--and my reaction to it. Larry Sheldon (Sep 09)