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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Perhaps a New Year resolution for us all!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I was out of the city over the New Year weekend and had
only a dial-up connection available. So found a recent email +
attachment from the list a very slow download at 668K in size. Interesting
but -</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>even with broadband, why take up time and space sending
large attachments to everyone. Could we upload any interesting materials to a
suitable place and send out details of the materials in the email together with
a link for those who are interested.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>As a sidelight, it is interesting to note just how much
the email encoding increases the size. In the above example the email came in at
668K but the attachment itself was only 493K. I have read somewhere - source
lost in the mists of time - that MIME encoding can increase the size by up to
50%. Tried it out for myself by composing two emails with
attachments. Three .jpg files total size 1,740K created an email of size 2,386K
while one .bmp file of 9,259K created an email of size 12,671K</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Robert Hind (Semi-retired)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Ex Traralgon and Ashwood</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>