Bug 1727493 Comment 35 Edit History

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Magnus wrote in comment 34:
> Regarding "both" ... from a storage saving perspective it's [neglegible] You'd have to write until your fingers bleed to get
> the plain text up to megabytes, on a yearly basis. Then you send someone a picture the next day, and
> all the savings is down the drain...

+1 Exactly that, particularly the last sentence.

> I would not base discussion on the assumption that per-card pref of prefers plaintext would stay,
> since it is something that I think should be removed as well.

Agreed.

> An add-on could then set the per message delivery option based on whatever criteria it sees fit.

Nice idea. I think adding an add API for that would be far easier than mainining the current complex code with all its corners.
Magnus wrote in comment 34:
> Regarding "both" ... from a storage saving perspective it's [neglegible] You'd have to write until your fingers bleed to get
> the plain text up to megabytes, on a yearly basis. Then you send someone a picture the next day, and
> all the savings is down the drain...

+1 Exactly that, particularly the last sentence.

> I would not base discussion on the assumption that per-card pref of prefers plaintext would stay,
> since it is something that I think should be removed as well.

Agreed.

> An add-on could then set the per message delivery option based on whatever criteria it sees fit.

Nice idea. I think adding an add-on API for that would be far easier than mainining the current complex code with all its corners.
Magnus wrote in comment 34:
> Regarding "both" ... from a storage saving perspective it's [neglegible] You'd have to write until your fingers bleed to get
> the plain text up to megabytes, on a yearly basis. Then you send someone a picture the next day, and
> all the savings is down the drain...

+1 Exactly that, particularly the last sentence.

> I would not base discussion on the assumption that per-card pref of prefers plaintext would stay,
> since it is something that I think should be removed as well.

Agreed. For the sake of this discussion, we should assume that all recipient-centric options are removed.

> An add-on could then set the per message delivery option based on whatever criteria it sees fit.

Nice idea. I think adding an add-on API for that would be far easier than mainining the current complex code with all its corners.

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