Re: I wanna write an RFC

[Zlatko Calusic <Zlatko.Calusic@CARNet.hr>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> davidk@lysator.liu.se (David Kĺgedal) writes:
> 
> > > Whatever.  A friend of mine has five or ten X-Faces, which he
> > > changes according to the nature of the message he's writing.
> > 
> > So if we changed to use URLs instead he would alternate between
> > different URLs, which would not cause any caching problems.
> 
> No, he would likely still use the X-Faces, as would I.  :-)
> 
> (And I think I'd hate my mail reader to fetch things from the web when 
> I'm reading mail, but I guess it's a matter of taste.)
> 

Yes, matter of taste definitely, but I really can't recall anybody who
would be willing to wait indefinite time just to get small b/w
picture, before reading his mail. And I'm speaking of people who
actually like x-faces, and use them (like me).

I wait for web pages, I wait for articles from the slow news server, I
wait for files to come when FTP-ing, but I DON'T want to wait to read
my email comfortably. Email is asynchronous in its nature, and I
believe it should stay that way.

So, I wan't to see those entertaining small pictures, and I want to
see them *right away*! :)
Few lines in (not) every article is small price to pay for that.

-- 
Zlatko