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ATM Size differences txt vs html


the below very short message,,

I'm not convinced.  A while back, someone replied to me, off line, in
html, giving some integral equations.  The text of the message was
quite easy to read; much easier than the ASCII conversion of the
same.  (Some day he'll have to teach me how he did it!).

But, I also agree that this could easily be abused with all sorts of
meaningless goop that would add nothing to the content.

In plain text is only 390 bytes,, but the same message EXACTLY  but in html

with no pictures,, and even no background  just the EXACT same message but in
RED letters and in Arial Black font is now 987 bytes in size and it told us
nothing more than the 390 byte message did,, it took up 3 times the space,
and told us no more, the message now is sent as below to produce it in html.




<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<b><font face="Arial Black"><font color="#FF0000">I'm not convinced.&nbsp;
A while back, someone replied to me, off line, in</font></font></b>
<br><b><font face="Arial Black"><font color="#FF0000">html, giving some
integral equations.&nbsp; The text of the message was</font></font></b>
<br><b><font face="Arial Black"><font color="#FF0000">quite easy to read;
much easier than the ASCII conversion of the</font></font></b>
<br><b><font face="Arial Black"><font color="#FF0000">same.&nbsp; (Some
day he'll have to teach me how he did it!).</font></font></b><b><font
face="Arial Black"><font color="#FF0000"></font></font></b>
<p><b><font face="Arial Black"><font color="#FF0000">But, I also agree
that this could easily be abused with all sorts of</font></font></b>
<br><b><font face="Arial Black"><font color="#FF0000">meaningless goop
that would add nothing to the content.</font></font></b></html>


is this being efficient?

I think not

Joe