RE: [Sheflug] Re: Re: My First Post

["David Morris" <nospam [at] allvac.co.uk>]

[snip]

> .. and you receive, say, 50 emails a day of various sizes ... at
> least hald
> the disk space, if you keep old email, is wasted. That extra 7k will soon
> mount up over time...

..and then you've got software like HP Openmail which insist on wrapping
plain text messages with MIME boundaries so non-Openmail users get all their
messages as attachments... and if someone "at the other end" is using MS
Word as a mail editor, recipients get two RTF encoded versions of the
message, both different sizes.


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David Morris
IT Manager, ALLVAC Ltd, Sheffield, UK
work: david [at] allvac.co.uk       (ICQ: 53264726) http://www.allvac.co.uk
home: david [at] brassedoff.net     (ICQ: 52728733) http://www.davidm.demon.co.uk

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