Re: tens of kilobytes

[CHRISTINE ANAMEIER <CANAMEIE -at- email -dot- usps -dot- gov>]

     Perhaps giving some examples would be helpful. I don't know what type
     of data those users are likely to be transferring, but whatever it is,
     they can probably comprehend relative sizes better in those terms than
     in kilobytes:

     "Transferring a simple one-page document would take up to _____
     seconds..."

     "A five-line email message can be transmitted in ___ to ___
     seconds...."

     "You may want to avoid sending anything larger than _____..."

     I spend all day and most evenings in front of a computer, but to
     figure out how much text equals 10KB, I had to go into Notepad and
     type some gibberish, save, look in Explorer to check the file size,
     repeat... in other words, I didn't have a clue how much 10KB was in
     real terms.

     Christine
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