[A83] Re: html mail
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[A83] Re: html mail
> Consider a 3KB file, 1.5KB of which consists of the mail header. With
> HTML mail making the message 4.5KB, we have effectively increased download
> time by 0.375 seconds on a 56K modem. Since you can read messages as they
> download, don't pull the claim that it is 0.375 more seconds per message
> of waiting time.
It's a wild assumption that an HTML mail has the same size as a plain
text message. Often they are as optimised as if they had been generated
by MS Word... Anyway, it's just not fun having to read HTML code in
mutt/pine/whatever I use.
PG
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