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Also known as: segment size, chunk size
How much data one posted article carries, set by the poster and bounded by server limits. Common choices land between 300KB and 768KB of source data before encoding, which yEnc inflates by one or two percent. Smaller articles mean a longer article list and more protocol overhead per megabyte; larger ones can be rejected outright by servers that enforce a maximum.
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