>I just noticed that the last two messages I sent out are saved in my file
>copy folder as 2,388 and 2,969 bytes, but by the time they arrived in my
>lbo-talk folder they had grown to 3,466 and 4,095 bytes respectively. I
>assume a kilobyte is too small to house an evil growth. But just out of
>curiousity, where does it come from? When I mail the same messages to
>myself, I don't get the same growth.
Headers, man. Eudora suppresses a lot of the headers unless you check the BLAH BLAH BLAH option. But the message in which you asked this question had 1,556 characters of headers, to wit:
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Doug