I have started a collection of the messages that send 4000 bytes and write
75 bytes.
It is a bit of trouble, but this is something that has bugged me for years.
The people that do this, ........
Waste Band Width
Slow Down the Mail
Fill up my hard drive ( and that of 1000 others )
And show lack of consideration or others, not to mention lack of
concern for doing a job right. Lack of knowledge is no
excuse. Knowledge it cheap but valuable.
I will not mention these people on list. Instead I will send them a
private email with the number of bytes in their message, and the
number of bytes that they wrote.
Believe me, one LINERS and a 4 or 5 K file is not "The Order of the Day".
The first one I did the byte check on was a 4000 byte message and
the person that send it wrote a single line, 75 Bytes.
Possibly this is why our archives crashed, ........... Possibly.
I won't get into sector size and how data is written to hard drives.
Fact is a small message can use one cluster or more.
Original cluster size was 512 bytes ( long ago) , but today the
larger drives use 4K, 16K, or 32 K. Some operating systems can use 64K.
The point is, if a data file is larger than one cluster, it will use
2 or more clusters as needed.
If you don't understand any of this and don't want to know, reset
assured your large messages can easily use 5, 10 or 32K of hard drive space.
The point is, learn to cut the useless text from a message.
Many messages are quoted entirely, 3 , 5 or maybe 10 times.
Direct any questions to me off list, or........ maybe on the OT list.
Wayne
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