On 3/28/10 6:50 AM, Terry R. wrote: > On 3/27/2010 10:31 PM On a whim, David E. Ross pounded out on the keyboard > >> 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. >> > > It wouldn't have to be that large at all. That is typical HTML-phobe > speak. Of course if you're talking about Word HTML composition, then > you would be correct, except for the excessive errors you state. > > I can compose an HTML document (and of course depending on how extreme > the formatting is), and the size won't be much more than 10%-20% of it's > plain text counterpart. And zero errors. > > So who do you believe? > > > Terry R.
I believe the sample of 20 actual HTML-formatted messages -- from 20 different senders -- that I received the beginning of this year. See my <http://www.rossde.com/internet/ASCIIvsHTML.html>. Yes, if you hand-code your HTML, you can make your messages error-free and quite compact. That's exactly how I create my Web pages. But if you use an E-mail application to create HTML, the results can be quite different. Even if SeaMOnkey using Composer produces error-free HTML, it still won't be as efficient -- as free of bloat -- as hand-coded HTML. -- 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
