On Wednesday, May 14, 2003, at 23:59 US/Eastern, Tom Bartel wrote:
I am an email packrat (I suspect there are others like me) and one of
my
webmail accounts currently has 1347 messages totaling 36.9MB in storage
space. The messages go back several months.
Hmm. My e-mail is 123MB, but the online folders are only 6MB. However,
3MB of that is filtered spam from the last 3 days.
I'm not sure how the inclusion of graphics increases the storage size
of
mail. It seems many spam messages now commonly use images to display
the "text" portion of their message, but the images are references to
external servers with fully qualified links. Unless spammers are
encoding and embedding graphics in the message using multipart/related
MIME, I don't think HTML email adds to storage size. It may infact
reduce storage size.
Graphics used to be included from referenced external servers, but (a)
that was too easy to filter and (b) the web sites got closed down too
quickly, making most of the sent spam retrospectively useless. So now a
lot of spammers send images embedded.
Then there's all the Windoze virus spam...
mathew
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