Nicolas Brouard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I choosed HTML but as I am also interested by bandwith consideration, I
> looked at both sources: the plaintext file is 28,977 characters long and
> the HTML is 39,755 characters. It is 37% more. It is not 3 times bigger
> as it was said on this list.
Yes. Three times larger is only if you have a *really* pathetically bad
converter. For comparison, here's the size difference for my faq2html
script, which I use to generate HTML versions of various FAQs I maintain
for posting on the web:
windlord:~/faqs> ls -l mjqmail mjqmail.html
-rw-r--r-- 1 eagle root 21246 Feb 15 07:20 mjqmail
-rw-r--r-- 1 eagle root 22736 Feb 25 07:13 mjqmail.html
See <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/faqs/mjqmail.html>.
Now, this gets a lot worse with quoted text, since HTML doesn't have good
mechanisms to deal with that (particularly with nested quoting). So in a
discussion context, things are messier.
--
Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
