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Posted by nice.guy.nige on 11/23/16 11:43
While the city slept, kchayka (usenet@c-net.us) feverishly typed...
> One of my favorite examples of MS bloat was an HTML email I received.
> Including headers, it was over 9000 bytes. The actual message content
> was a single sentence of less than 100 bytes.
I used to work in a government office here in the UK. Being Civil Service,
there were naturally thousands of users on the overall network. One day we
all got an email from one of the admins to warn us that - although it was
fun to add little bits of clipart and other such things to emails, making
them a little less dreary to the reader - this did in fact increase the size
of the email which was significant when it was being sent to such a large
number of people - causing the servers to creak...
This message went on to a list of bullet points on good and bad email
practice, and how to get a message across without increasing the load on the
servers so much. In all, it was a good concise message, about 10-15 lines
long.
Unfortunately - and with a most elegant irony - this message was in the form
of a 20k Word doc attached to the email!!!!! Oh how I giggled...
Cheers,
Nige
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