[Coco] [OT - Sort of?] Sizes of emails sent to this alias

[Stephen H. Fischer]

As I received your message it was 5.30 KB (5,428 bytes).

Open the file with a non e-mail aware word processor, I used notepad.

The real problem is that there are few replies that do not include all the posts made before to the thread. They get pretty long at times.

It is interesting that the payload is not readable. That is the text you wish to be read.

SHF



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Guin" <johnguin at hotmail.com>
To: "'CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts'" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 1:46 PM
Subject: [Coco] [OT - Sort of?] Sizes of emails sent to this alias


>I realize that modern machines have much more memory than legacy machines,
> but please bear with me.
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> 
> I was looking at the size of the last few emails sent to this alias and the
> average size was just over 16K.  This means that my original Coco could not
> even open most of these mails.  Heh.
> 
> 
> 
> But I also noticed that every mail I receive to this list is strictly larger
> than or equal to 13K in size.  That seems a bit excessive since almost all
> the content in the mail is text, and not very much text at that.
> 
> 
> 
> I looked at the emails and it seems a constant amount of header information
> is being added as the mail items are being routed around.  In a typical
> message, this amounts to 4K or so.
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> 
> The text of the average of the last 25 mails I received is <1K.
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> So there is still 8K of email overhead being added somewhere.  Any idea
> where that may be coming in?  And before this question needs an answer, do
> other folks using various email clients see about the same size mail items?
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> 
> Thanks all,
> 
> John
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