"SH" == Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> writes: SH> Andrzej Adam Filip put forth on 1/15/2011 4:02 AM: >> Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: >>> [...] The average size of an email worldwide today is less than 4KB, >>> less than one typical filesystem block. [...] >> >> Do not confuse "unix culture" of mostly plain text only email >> messages with "MS Junk" culture of overblown formatting with >> background images company logos as a few image files in every >> (internal) email.
SH> "average size of an email worldwide" SH> The bulk of all email is personal, not corporate: [...] ,---- | More than 97% of all e-mails sent over the net are unwanted, according | to a Microsoft security report.[39] | | MAAWG estimates that 85% of incoming mail is "abusive email", as of the | second half of 2007. The sample size for the MAAWG's study was over 100 | million mailboxes.[40][41][42] | | Spamhaus estimates that 90% of incoming e-mail traffic is spam in North | America, Europe or Australasia.[43] By June 2008 96.5% of e-mail | received by businesses was spam.[18][unreliable source?] `---- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-mail_spam#As_a_percentage_of_the_total_volume_of_e-mail ---8<---[snipped 3 lines]---8<--- SH> under 4KB per message, especially considering the amount of SMS SH> gatewaying going on with smart phones today. Most of those are one SH> liners with the smtp header being 4 times the size of the body, with SH> total message size being under 1KB. SH> -- Stan I just have a tiny set of 4k spam mails, but they have an avg size of 39KB, ie well above 4KB. -- Philipp Haselwarter
