<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Um, no. nibble as a term didn't turn up until the 70s. byte predated it by 20 years.<br><br> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Christopher Mclean <cjm@ausoptic.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> "ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog@lists.ausnog.net> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 27 March 2013, 9:29<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] [SAGE-AU Discuss] [RESULTS] Straw poll: what is your email message size limit?<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1712444137"><style><!--
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--></style><div><div class="yiv1712444137WordSection1"><div class="yiv1712444137MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;">4 bits were always referred to as a nibble</span></div><div class="yiv1712444137MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", "sans-serif";color:#1F497D;"> </span></div><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;"><div class="yiv1712444137MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma", "sans-serif";" lang="EN-US"> ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Lloyd Wood<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 26, 2013 4:58 PM<br><b>To:</b> Narelle; Paul Gear<br><b>Cc:</b>
ausnog@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] [SAGE-AU Discuss] [RESULTS] Straw poll: what is your email message size limit?</span></div></div></div><div class="yiv1712444137MsoNormal"> </div><div><div><div class="yiv1712444137MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><span style="color:black;"><br>> Bytes are 8 bits. Always were, always will be.</span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1712444137MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="color:black;"> <br>Um, no. You are probably too young to remember 4-bit and 6-bit bytes and other popular word sizes.<br><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte</a><br><br>> Even the worst pedants will accept variations on the use of K (1024<br>> also Kelvin) for k (1000) as often these are misused.<br><br>Um, no. That's why the worst pedants developed<br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541</a><br><br></span></div></div><div><div class="yiv1712444137MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="color:black;">Lloyd Wood<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk">lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk</a><br><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://sat-net.com/L.Wood">http://sat-net.com/L.Wood</a></span></div></div><div><div><div><div class="yiv1712444137MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;background:white;" align="center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"><hr align="center" size="1" width="100%"></span></div><div class="yiv1712444137MsoNormal" style="background:white;"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;">From:</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial", "sans-serif";color:black;"> Narelle <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com">narellec@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> Paul Gear <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ausnog@libertysys.com.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:ausnog@libertysys.com.au">ausnog@libertysys.com.au</a>> <br><b>Cc:</b> <a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank" href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 26 March 2013, 15:38<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] [SAGE-AU Discuss] [RESULTS] Straw poll: what is your email message size limit?</span><span style="color:black;"></span></div></div><div class="yiv1712444137MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white;"><span style="color:black;"><br>On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Paul Gear <<a rel="nofollow"
ymailto="mailto:ausnog@libertysys.com.au" target="_blank" href="mailto:ausnog@libertysys.com.au">ausnog@libertysys.com.au</a>> wrote:<br>> A soft summary: it seems that those of us on 10 MB or less are behind the<br>> times, mostly thanks to gmail.<br><br>> I'd also like to publish some of the comments i received off-list. Because<br>> i said i would summarise the results for the lists, i'm going to assume that<br>> anyone who emailed me directly will be happy to be quoted anonymously.<br><br>{begin grumble}<br><br>Are you going to include some meta analysis like the number of<br>"techies" that use units incorrectly whilst also claiming to be<br>authoritative?<br><br>MB vs mb - the latter always means millibits.<br><br>Bytes are 8 bits. Always were, always will be.<br>Anything else will render their meaning bit set to 0.<br><br>Even the worst pedants will accept variations on the use of K (1024<br>also Kelvin) for k (1000) as
often these are misused.<br><br>{end grumble}<br><br>PS I note a certain large ISP has just announced a cloud based email<br>service with 30MB of outgoing message size and 3GB of storage.<br><br>-- <br><br><br>Narelle<br><a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com">narellec@gmail.com</a></span><br> </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div></body></html>