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Re: Is Samba typically slower sending files than receiving?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\))
Tue Nov 10 05:24:01 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:24:51 +0000
From: "Thomas Ribbrock \(Design/DEG\)" <argathin@iname.com>
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In-Reply-To: <8345C56BD868D011B1BE00A02412E7C415FE47@mail.mysticsheets.com>; from Benny D. Helms on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:58:33PM -0800
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Benny D. Helms writes:
> I've seen this with HTML in Outlook, but you're saying it also hoses up the
> works when you set it to RTF? In what way? I'm not doubting you, just
> feeling miserable for doing this all the time so that the few users on my
> immediate LAN can get pretty colors and bold fonts from me once every blue
> moon. What effect does RTF have on a non-Outlook viewer?
Sending the Mail in RTF results in a "ms-tnef" attachment - and this
attachment is something between 4 and 15 times bigger thatn the original
mail! On standard mail readers, it shows up as binary garbage. ms-tnef (RTF)
is *much worse* than HTML in both readability and waste of bandwidth, IMO.
Thomas
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