Shel Belinkoff wrote:
Hi,
Sometimes I receive pics as attachments, and I've noticed that the file
size shown is often larger - sometimes much larger - than the actual size
of the attachment. Yesterday I was sent a 3.1mb file, with no email
message but "here it is!" yet I had to download a 4.4mb file. What's up
with this?
Shel
Very, very simplified....
It's like the opposite of jpeg compression. To be attached to an email
the image has to be encoded, generally into ascii characters. Unlike
image compression for storage, this often enlarges the file.
More information:
http://www.uwo.ca/its/doc/hdi/email/attachment.html#encoding
http://www.livinginternet.com/e/ea_att_encode.htm
