From: Stephen Satchell (listfluent2.pyramid.net)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 19:37:09 CST

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At 06:44 AM 2/28/03 -0600, Len Conrad wrote:
>A newsletter in .pdf, which is fairly compressible, but most users don't
>know what "zip file" is.
>
>And he couldn't send a compressed, self-extracting .exe because too many
>MX's refuse any mail with .exe attachments.
>
>His only relief is a unique msg DATA body to 400K recipients, with multi
>RCPT TO's per SMTP session (into postfix and out to Internent).
>
>Pulling it from a web server is 400k DL's, no relief.

But breaking the newsletter into a tree of HTML pages (text only) would
provide a lot of relief for those people who don't have the time or modem
bandwidth for a full-blown PDF.

Just how big is this newsletter? I did a report on a project that PDF'ed
to 324K, and the thing was 22 pages long. The report includes some
pictures and graphics, but doesn't go overboard. The only think I can
think is that the newsletter is being scanned, so there is no text copy of
the thing, which means you have a HUGE file for virtually nothing.

So Job 2 is to see how the PDF is being generated, and to use a less
bandwidth-intensive method of sending the information. My guess (based on
PDFs of court documents) is that he could save a huge amount of bandwidth
by using PostScript the way it was intended to be used in PDFs, and not use
page images.

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