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From: Jack Beale (no email)
Date: Fri Mar 02 2001 - 16:43:24 EST
R,
Just because you piqued my interest and because I always send HTML as a matter of choice (sorry to those who have text only devices), I decided to send your original message to myself in both HTML and plain 'ol text to see what the relative sizes were. You quoted the difference as a factor of 7X...
The HTML message went out at 11 KB...
The plain 'ol text message went out at 5 KB.
I make that to be a factor of 2X. While I'm sure that there may be instances where the 7X figure you quoted may be correct, I don't think that's the norm. Simply, the difference between 5 KB and 11 KB is not that significant...
Jack Beale
http://home.att.net/~jack.beale/computerguy.htm
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----- Original Message -----
From: Richard R. Ryburn
To: Liveaboard
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: lv-ab: What is with this mailing list? A Different View
I originally subscribed to this list in 1994, I believe it was, and was off
for awhile due to lack of time. I still find it to be very useful much of
the time.
A plain text email without attachment, for example, can NOT carry a virus. Also, it
increases the typical message size by about 700%. Yes, that number is
correct. Since we can assume that at least some of the people on this list
actually DO live aboard, we can also assume that some of the people on this
list have a slow connection to get email, or one that they pay by the
minute.
Ric Ryburn
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