On 1/28/16 1:42 PM, Brandon Long wrote:
2) message sizes are increasing, but base64 isn't going away
Are they?
It's an honest question; you have vastly better data to work from than I
do. But I have not seen much growth in message size once we got past the
bump from plain text to HTTP, and the occasional bump from another
vendor adding more cruft to the header. Attachments can be large, but
the user community seems to have generally accepted that Email isn't an
appropriate transport for "large" things and tends to avoid it. The most
common attachment types also are not compressible: PDF, JPEG, pkzip.
The exceptions can be spectacular; I see marketing types Emailing 150MB
powerpoint files every day, and those seem to be quite compressible. But
as annoying as they can be, they do seem to be the exception.
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