Re: File attachments in body of EMail message

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From: Jim Pickering (jimp_at_mvps.0rg)
Date: 09/04/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2004 19:40:14 -0700

When you send an attachment, it must be encoded to plain text, so that it
can be transmitted via the internet, which is a plain text medium. This
encoding adds about 30% to the total file size of the message, i.e. a 2KB of
text plus a 15 KB image would normally be 17KB but after encoding, it's
inflated to more than 22KB total size.

All attachments are a part of the message. That is the intent of it. There
is no way to separate the message and the attachment. If the attached files
are very large, it's recommended you upload them to webspace that almost all
ISP's provide free, and provide a link to the attachment so that your
correspondents can download the file, when it's convenient for them to do
so. 

-- 
Jim Pickering, MVP-Outlook Express
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"Tony" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:5f6601c49224$eb68fa20$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>
> When I send an EMail with a game file or photo as an
> attachment, the file automatically becomes part of the
> message making the EMail larger than it needs to be.
> Does anyone know how to prevent a file attachment from
> becoming part of the EMail message ?
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