Question: Why are header files smaller than the total downloaded?

Long story short, I just spend the last hour downloading about 5 million headers using Newsleecher.

In the download counter, it says that I downloaded a total of 4 GB.
However, when I check the Newsleecher cache in %APPDATA%\NewsLeecher\ , the whole folder is only 870 MB.

So what does this mean? Where is the other 3 GB???:unsure:

i would think that they are compressed after they are downloaded :-/ I dunno.

Why waste your time downloading headers in the first place?

just go to newzleech.com and click browse and click what group you want...its much easier

there are real gems hidden in the headers. time consuming but worth it every once in a while

Compression makes sense. That's probably it.
You know, for the headers, I download them because I don't know what I want to download so having a list of stuffs available in front of me to choose helps a lot.

I download headers not in the big groups but the smaller binary groups. I find many useful posts not found on NZB sites.