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Posted by trippy on 11/16/47 11:43
In article <44280c4f$0$94756$892e7fe2@authen.yellow.readfreenews.net>,
nice.guy.nige took the hamburger, threw it on the grill, and I said "Oh
wow"...
> 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...
That's insane. Wow.
>
> Cheers,
> Nige
>
>
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trippy
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but most of the time all you need is a stick of gum, a pocketknife,
and a smile."
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