Spock <spo### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message news:3a940f59$1@news.povray.org...
>
> Now I don't want to get off on a rant here, but:
>
> - The size posted in the message subject is almost always wrong, since
> people quote the binary size and ASCII encoding bumps it by about 30%.
>

Which is why most people I've seen quote kbu (kilobytes before upload)

OE shows me the total size before downloading, so I don't generally
pay attention to the size, but it takes no time to add to the subject
line, so I almost always add the size just in case some newsreaders
don't show the size.

Gail
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