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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>4 bits were always referred to as a nibble<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> 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?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>> Bytes are 8 bits. Always were, always will be.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal 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 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 href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1541</a><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'>Lloyd Wood<br><a href="mailto:lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk">lloyd.wood@yahoo.co.uk</a><br><a href="http://sat-net.com/L.Wood">http://sat-net.com/L.Wood</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;background:white'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><hr size=1 width="100%" align=center></span></div><p class=MsoNormal 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 href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com">narellec@gmail.com</a>><br><b>To:</b> Paul Gear <<a href="mailto:ausnog@libertysys.com.au">ausnog@libertysys.com.au</a>> <br><b>Cc:</b> <a 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'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='color:black'><br>On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Paul Gear <<a 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 href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com">narellec@gmail.com</a><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>