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

[dfsadsadsa]

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:

[asmithz]

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

Why waste your time downloading headers in the first place?

[dutchmaster420]

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

[ericab]

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

[dfsadsadsa]

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.

[Windy72]

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