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

[Stephen H. Fischer]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stephen H. Fischer" <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2015 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] [OT - Sort of?] Sizes of emails sent to this alias


> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The text of the average of the last 25 mails I received is <1K.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks all,
>> 
>> John
>> 
>> 
>> 
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