Re: [Fsfe-uk] Administrivia: html duplicates

[Jon Grant]

Chris Croughton wrote on 27/01/08 13:09:
> On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:06:01PM +0000, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > On Sat, 2008-01-26 at 22:10 +0000, Jon Grant wrote:
> > > I don't think there is any noticeable difference in Thunderbird loading 
> > > my mailbox or email msg which are in HTML (CPU increases in last decade 
> > > eliminated any conversion time cost). Perhaps this is just mutt "not 
> > > being very good"? ;) If it is, why not just swithc to a "better" client?
>
> No, I'm running mutt on my home machine, which fetches it using
> fetchmail.  CPU time is not a problem, disk reading time is.

Are you running on a 286 or so? Your mailbox will most likely largely be 
in RAM too. These are issues for your client to deal with.. rather than 
the rest of the world to optimise for you! (Hopefully I don't sound too 
blunt..)

Kind regards, Jon