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Mailbombing is Not Funny
Last week: The Right to Punch People (Apparently)
Further to the previous article [1, 2], 19 days ago we wrote about death in our family. This didn't stop Brett Wilson LLP from sending verbally-aggressive communications our way (during holidays; they knew because we had already told them that!).
"Apropos non-text attachments and abusing e-mail in place of a file sharing protocol," an associate wrote, "you have the issue of base64 encoding *increasing* vastly the number of bytes sent. It's just under a 40% increase in size for binaries."
The associate took an old PDF as an example, showing how a 1.3MB file got inflated to 1.8MB when turned into a base64 equivalent.
"I presume that is known and adds the aspect of malice to anyone mailbombing via large attachments," said the associate.
What sane law firm sends a couple of people - pro bono publishers - 2,000-2,500 pages of material? And lots of that through the doorstep, too. They clog up both the digital inbox and the physical equivalent. Maybe they think it is "mostly funny". █