Re: Bloated messages from the ietf list for the week ending Sun Aug 16 14:36:38 2020

["John R. Levine" <[e-mail]>]

> Does it matter about mail headers, etc.?  The point is to look at number of postings and relative size.  As long as all measurements are done at the same place, that's fine.

Of course.

There is a long tradition of old-timers grousing about how bloated modern 
mail messages have become.  On the one hand they're right, turning 2K of 
text into 50K of bloat is silly.  On the other hand, people less set in 
their ways than we are find it normal and useful that they can format 
their mail the same way they can format any other document.  And on the 
third hand, in a world of streaming video, the total storage and bandwidth 
that mail uses, bloat and all, is a rounding error.

Regards,
John Levine, [e-mail], Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly

PS: in response to several requests, next week's summary will be sorted 
by number of messages rather than size.