[rahuldottech]

I... Am not sure how this is a useful perspective?

[gjhr]

I just noticed the author used Romeo and Juliet in the screenshot and was curious how far through the play the truncation happens. It can be useful for some to put sizes like this into another more familiar form, for example the famous Bill Gates CD ROM photograph. Obviously this comparison only makes sense if your email is in plain text, something which is often not the case.

[ubermonkey]

It's not. It's an example specifically picked to make the limit sound reasonable, because it concerns only the text of the play itself.

What fattens email is layout information and inline images, which the example completely ignores.

[SmellyGeekBoy]

It's a long play.