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>   ...but please don't abuse the JPG format by pressing it into service
> for something other than natural-scene, continuous-tone images.  There
> are far more suitable compression algorithms for line art.  The very
> real advantage is the lack of artifacting that is so visibly annoying
> when people do things like post schematics as JPG files.

Understood, it would be much better to (as KaiMartin did) post the
full picture somewhere and email the link around, but consider:

1. Email really needs to worry about message size, and

2. Today's GUIs have lots of anti-aliasing and shading that compresses
   better with jpeg than png.