[Gllug] *****SPAM***** mail attachements

[Dave Cridland [Clues]]

On 23 Nov 2002 12:25:11 +0000
Mark Lowes <hamster at korenwolf.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2002-11-23 at 00:15, Dave Cridland [Home] wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 18:21:46 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
> > "Priapus8ins" <priapus9ins at btopenworld.com> wrote:
> [...]
> > Your plain text message is 531 bytes (or octets for the purists).
> > 
> > The HTML version and images weigh in at 13.2k, and have been carefully
> > sent to however many people are subscribed to this list - probably quite
> > a lot - almost none of whom will want it.
> 
> Hard figures time.
> 
> The difference between the plain text and and html versions of your
> email (based on the above) is approx (allowing for headers) 12,000 bytes

It's multipart/alternative, so he's wasting about 5.7M. :-)

Of course, this number of people explaining this has probably wasted
almost the same. Oh, the irony.

Dave.

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