(as I contribute to the 'off topic nonsense' I was mentioning..)
of course size has its significance - but not on this list !! :-))
At 12:08 AM 7/20/00 -0400, you wrote:
>heheh and I thought ALL you ladies were ONLY interested in size...:)
>
>Philomena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 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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