Thank you for the explanation. As it turns out, compressing the file enough
to make it acceptable to the newsgroup pretty much ruins it, so I'm going to
try to set up a link on the web instead.
Steve Shelby

"Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
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> In article <4055a0b2$1@news.povray.org> , "Steve Shelby"
> <ssh### [at] rexnetnet> wrote:
>
> > But my file is only 876 kb, and I looked at other posts and there are
many
> > which ar larger than that. What could be wrong?
> > Steve Shelby
>
> It is that size *before* encoding.  Your newsreader first has to encode
it,
> which adds at least 25%.  The larger messages you see are multipart posts
> where the newsreader (automatically) split the file into several smaller
> chunks.  While this will work, it is recommended you do no make too heavy
> use of it (you could also post like 10 GB with it in 10000 parts)...
>
>     Thorsten
>
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