Mandi! Jan Ingvoldstad
  In chel di` si favelave...

> Consider typical e-mail usage for end users:

You are right. It is all true. And probably if there's really a bandwidth
trouble, other mean of transport (UUCP?) suit better.

But encoding of the attachment (typically in base64) lead to roughly on 25%
more byte, that can be regained easily with compression.


> For server to server connections, the overhead for compressing and
> decompressing may be undesirable.

Sure. I'm still considering some ''special'' needs, like a private network
with sites loosly connected each other, via not-so-private link so SSL is
needed.


Anyway, sorry for the fuss. And thanks.

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  informatico, questo esercizio logico lo renderĂ  padrone e non
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