On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:06:16 +0200, Thorsten Froehlich <tho### [at] trfde> wrote:

>clipka wrote:
>> Stephen <mcavoysAT@aolDOTcom> wrote:
>>> So what is 1000000 bytes in the real world?
>> 
>> Hmm... with uuencoding and all, I'd say... something like a 700k file? ;)
>
>Encoding commonly adds 25% (twentyfive) size, thus the actual file size 
>limit is 20% (twenty) less than the maximum permitted, thus for 5 MB the 
>uploadable filesize is 4 MB.
>

Thanks for that "rule of thumb"
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Regards
     Stephen

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