From: Craig H. <cr...@gu...> - 2006-05-08 23:58:49
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On May 5, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Chuck Colht wrote: > The world would be a better, safer place if we all used plain > text...just think of the bandwidth and storage savings... ...well, except that email is a vanishingly small percentage of total network traffic and storage use, so saving even 90% on the size of an email is pretty much irrelevant in the scheme of things. My entire email archive of everything I've sent and received (including a fair % age of all my spam and viruses even) going back to 1992 is about 4GB. If I bothered compressing and archiving it, that'd probably be more like 1GB (email typically compresses about 4:1 using an algorithm like rzip). By contrast, I've purchase about 1GB of iTunes in the last year alone... That DVD I downloaded last week on bittorrent was 2GB all by itself. C |