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IP: The wonders of Microsoft HTML mail (IP Submission)
From: David Farber <dfarber () earthlink net>
Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 09:44:25 -0400
-----Original Message----- From: Paul Davey <paul () pdc co uk> Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 14:41:56 To: farber () cis upenn edu Subject: Fwd: The wonders of Microsoft HTML mail (IP Submission) For IP if you want it: From an unofficial internal mailing list within a certain independent web browser manufacturer ...
Microsoft's products are really good at producing HTML mails... Recently, someone sent an unsubscribe request for a mailing list I am on to the wrong address, which made it show up on the list itself. This message was supposedly empty, but it looked a bit large, so I checked. It was an empty message, in both text/plain and text/html format. The HTML document is created by Microsoft Word 10 and contains 2.5 kilobyte of Microsoft HTML/XML/whatever tags, weird CSS and <font> tags. And the actual contents? Well, inside the document body, one finds the actual contents: Whee. 2.5 kilobyte to send a space...
It was also suggested that it probably only put the space in because it was worried about empty documents making IE or some similar program crash. I presume word 10 is aka word XP, but as my email is also set to send HTML and plain text I wonder just how much extra overhead is being creating this way. kind regards Paul -- Paul Davey pd Consulting Ltd http://www.pdc.co.uk For archives see: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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