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On 13 Jan 1999, Russ Allbery wrote:

> for most images.  It's a good bit slower when it has to dither 24-bit, but
> that's not the common case for a MIME viewer, surely.  And the quality

I don't think so... I can easily see people passing around jpegs from
their scanner/digital camera.  In fact, I tend to think more people will
be passing around 24-bit images than 8-bit.