Ivan Shmakov <i...@gray.siamics.net> writes: > It's not unusual to compress the files before the Base64 > encoding is applied. And indeed, the compression ratio may > vary.
And when the files are compressed, they can be smaller than they are uncompressed --- so it's amazing that base64 doesn't involve automatic compression. Perhaps "base65" should be invented, which would compress the file if it does get smaller and then encodes it with base64. If such a base65 was the default way of sending all email and if (most of) the headers would be compressed as well, a lot less data would have to be transferred. -- http://www.asciiribbon.org/ http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjpu4lo0....@yun.yagibdah.de
