Darren New wrote:

> Because news and mail doesn't standardly support binary transfer, so the
> top two bits (for some meaning of the word "top") always have to be
> zero, and get shifted to other bytes, so the file gets 25% larger.

So should this be taken into account when posting?  Should I not post
anything larger than about 700-800kb since that gets inflated to around
1Mb?  Thanks though.  That makes sense even though it seems pretty
inefficient.

 - Ricky

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