>>>>> Andrew McGlashan <[email protected]> writes:

[…]

 > The other thing that many people don't seem to understand, is that
 > sending a large binary file as an attachment requires the attachment
 > to be encoded back to printable characters -- this can increase the
 > payload of an email by 50%.

        Huh?  Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%?

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