At 09:36 AM 6/23/00 -0700, Chuq Von Rospach wrote:
[snip]
>If you're just sending HTML instead of plain text, it's a little
>under double. If you do multipart/alternative, it's about 3X because
>both forms are enclosed.
When I last checked actual messages, it was about 3x and 4x.
The limiting ratio of a message full of " " would be 6x and 7x,
plus a bit more for the extra headers. I'd guess what I am seeing
is that way too many "tools" out there are constructing messages
full of long (unneeded) runs of the no-break-space (" ") sequence
and don't do any size optimization. This is literally lots of bandwidth
being used for zero information content.
And, if HTML mail does become widely accepted in any sense, I am
confident that Microsoft will find a way to set up new compose defaults
to make bandwidth worse... perhaps a URL to retrieve each character :-)
Cheers,
Stan
