[ietf-nntp] :bytes metadata

Charles Lindsey chl at clerew.man.ac.uk
Mon Dec 22 04:12:47 PST 2003


In <3FE30A49.6070906 at oceana.com> Ken Murchison <ken at oceana.com> writes:

>Agreed.  But if we're just going to state that its a <= approximation, 
>we probably don't need to get into the storage format.  If what we're 
>saying is true, then the client shouldn't/won't care whether its stored 
>in wire format, canonical format, base64 encoded or AES encrypted, as 
>long as its gets a reasonable estimate of the canonical size.

I think you would get a rather poor estimate using base64, but I don't
think our protocol gives that option (or not in a manner visible to the
user).

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