Non-text email (was Re: text to pdf to email)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Tue, 10 May 2005 14:02:46 -0400):
[...]
> > Below my sig is a text report. Using Pine on Linux I attached it to
> > the end of my email. How does it look? Do the linedraw characters come
> > out right? Do you see the 125-column layout properly represented? Can
> > you print it properly if you need to?
>
> Does it belong in email?  Likely not.
[...]
> What's in question is the sending of large attachments via a transport
> mechanism that was never designed for this kind of thing--on a regular
> basis, no less.
>
> You know the old saying, "Guess you just had to be there?"
[...]

You mean like the e-mail to fpsupport several years ago?

1) Take an error message on the screen (less than 100 characters).
2) Use a GUI screen capture at full 1024x768x24 resolution.
3) Paste it into an MS-Word document.
4) Repeat for a second, slightly different, error.
5) Save the file in RTF format.
6) Attach it to an e-mail and BASE64 encode it.

The result?  To communicate less than 200 characters took an e-mail of
greater than 13MB.

Oh, and top it off with a 28.8K dialup connection at the time.

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