would you just drop it !!!! or take it offline
This has nothing to do with Mandrake Linux and is getting very old !
The size of a message wouldn't matter if we didn't have to wade through so
much off topic nonsense.
philomena
At 06:32 PM 7/19/00 +0200, you wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 17, 2000 at 04:37:06PM -0700, Mike & Tracy Holt wrote:
> > I'm sorry Alexander, but there's no way that 3 lines of text from an email
> > would produce 26 lines if written in html - it just doesn't work like that.
>
>No? You're sure? If so, have a look at this message:
>
>Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>From: "Phil Lamey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:26:16 -0400
>Subject: unsubscribe
>
>It simply contains the word "unsubscribe" and is 30 lines long! And if you
>only compare the line numbers of HTML vs. plain text, it is 14:1. And
>bytewise it is 309 bytes for the HTML junk vs. 12 bytes for plain text.
>That's a ratio of 25.75:1. And because he wrote the message as HTML + plain
>text, the ratio is even worse for html! >27:1. Don't know how much greater,
>because sending an attachment will add some header and delimeter lines, that
>were not present if he would've only sent the mail in plain text.
>
>It just doesn't work like this? I don't think so! THAT is the way it
>works!
>
>Alexander Skwar
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