[AusNOG] [SAGE-AU Discuss] [RESULTS] Straw poll: what is your email message size limit?

[Lloyd Wood]

Um, no. nibble as a term didn't turn up until the 70s. byte predated it by 20 years.



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4 bits were always referred to as a nibble
 
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> Bytes are 8 bits. Always were, always will be.
 
Um, no. You are probably too young to remember 4-bit and 6-bit bytes and other popular word sizes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte

> Even the worst pedants will accept variations on the use of K (1024
> also Kelvin) for k (1000) as often these are misused.

Um, no. That's why the worst pedants developed
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541


Lloyd Wood
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On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Paul Gear <ausnog at libertysys.com.au> wrote:
> A soft summary: it seems that those of us on 10 MB or less are behind the
> times, mostly thanks to gmail.

> I'd also like to publish some of the comments i received off-list.  Because
> i said i would summarise the results for the lists, i'm going to assume that
> anyone who emailed me directly will be happy to be quoted anonymously.

{begin grumble}

Are you going to include some meta analysis like the number of
"techies" that use units incorrectly whilst also claiming to be
authoritative?

MB vs mb - the latter always means millibits.

Bytes are 8 bits. Always were, always will be.
Anything else will render their meaning bit set to 0.

Even the worst pedants will accept variations on the use of K (1024
also Kelvin) for k (1000) as often these are misused.

{end grumble}

PS I note a certain large ISP has just announced a cloud based email
service with 30MB of outgoing message size and 3GB of storage.

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Narelle
narellec at gmail.com
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