On 3/27/10 4:05 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote [in part]: > Daniel wrote [also in part]: > >> And Bill if I limit my downloaded messages to only those of 1kByte or >> less, that still doesn't stop your 1MByte message arriving on my ISP's >> server for my mail account, so costing me extra because you've exceeded >> my daily 500kByte mail limit. (Don't worry, Bill, it's not just you, I'm >> still trying to educate my family members as well!!) >> > Doesn't stop 1MB plain text either. Big data is big data, and if you have > people > sending you stuff like that you might be well served to go to gmail, and use > a > reader which lets you choose not to download text of any message over a > certain > size unless initiated manually. gmail supports IMAP as well as the web > interface. >
If a 1 MB plain-text message were instead composed as an HTML-formatted message, the result would be approximately 4.6 MB. And it would likely have approximately 21,000 HTML syntax errors. -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> Go to Mozdev at <http://www.mozdev.org/> for quick access to extensions for Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, and other Mozilla-related applications. You can access Mozdev much more quickly than you can Mozilla Add-Ons. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
