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The message I retreived is smaller than the number of bytes that were charged. Why?

April 26, 2017bytes charged message retreived smaller

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The message I retreived is smaller than the number of bytes that were charged. Why?

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All messages are encoded as text when they are uploaded to the Usenet. If you retrieved a message that had a file attachment, it was encoded as text as well. Messages with text encoded file attachments are not as efficient at storing information as the original files. The difference can be up to 40% depending on the encoding method chosen for the message by the message poster.