On Thu, Jul 4, 2024 at 2:58 PM Richard <rrosn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Right, because 4x = 10x. Jesus, stop being so ridiculous. Also, there's some > magic trick called compression.
Compression is a security hole. It leaks information. It should be disabled. Infact, TLS v1.3 removed it from the protocol. Also see <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRIME> and <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BREACH>. > Human readable text is especially easy to compress, basically negating all > those effects. So just stick to reality, everything else is just embarrassing. Jeff > On Thu, Jul 4, 2024, 16:48 Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: >> >> The HTML part is more than double the size of the plain text part, and >> when you include all of the MIME metadata needed to set up the multipart >> message, the overall size of the body is about 4x what it would have been >> if you'd only sent plain text (0.5k -> 2.0k). >> >> Granted, this is not the 10x increase that Michel predicted, but it's >> easy to see how a *different* HTML message, with a lot more markup, >> could certainly reach that threshold.
