HTMLised email

[Trevor Smith]

On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 10:47:44 +0100, Anders Gjerl v wrote:

>No. 1 is the below message. Indeed it contains two versions of the
>e-mail. One plaintext, and one HTML version.
>No. 2 is the exact same message, forwarded to myself, header removed
>(so that the mail itself contains the same amount of data), and HTML
>option turned off.
>
>3725 divided by 1734 is app. 2,15. The size is more than doubled!!

I sent my test of the email before reading Anders'. My test was done
by editing the original email and saving it as a new file without the
HTML attachment.

So, we can safely conclude, I think, that HTML can add between 64%
and 100% to the size of some typical email.


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