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From: Toens Bueker (toens.bueker_at_gmx.net)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 08:39:54 CST

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    Liviu Daia <Liviu.Daiaimar.ro> wrote:

    > > Pulling it from a web server is 400k DL's, no relief.
    >
    > If you take into account the bounces, the retries to slow or dead
    > destinations, and Base64 encoding, 400k downloads from a web server are
    > *far* better than sending 400k messages. Files can be sent compressed
    > from a web server, and interrupted downloads can be continued from where
    > they stopped. People behind dead destinations will never get to bother
    > his server :-) (compare this to a message retried every few minutes).
    > Some of the 400k subscribers might at times have better things to do
    > than read a newsletter.

    Furthermore you would know, how many of your subscribers
    really read the newsletter. Pdfs can be served in
    byte-ranges as they are read in the browser.

    The "website-solution" is much better for feedback
    purposes ... mailing pdfs out is like sending a snail mail
    mailing.

    by
    Töns 

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