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USING THIS TAG IS NOT THE SAME THING AS ASKING ON STACK OVERFLOW. YOU ARE ON META STACK EXCHANGE, WHERE MOST PROGRAMMING QUESTIONS ARE OFF-TOPIC. Questions specific to stackoverflow.com should be asked on meta.stackoverflow.com; such questions will be closed here. This is for questions about the Stack Overflow site that still relate to the SE network as a whole. Questions about Stack Overflow (the company) should be tagged [company] instead.

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Can anyone explain why I'm getting in crap from I.T. because of bandwidth to api.stackoverfl...

Okay, just an update - I think I found the answer to my question. The StackOverflow add-on for FireFox appears to be the culprit. I've uninstalled it and am awaiting confirmation from I.T. that the …
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Can anyone explain why I'm getting in crap from I.T. because of bandwidth to api.stackoverfl...

I.T. just sent me a report complaining that my bandwidth use for our internet connection leads the company by more than 30X what the rest of the company is using. After I prevented myself spitting co …
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If you add one char to a Question, the edit history says it's adding 5

I think the reason for the discrepancy in the characters is that carriage return and line feed are counted separately so two carriage returns = 4 chars, plus the char you thought you added = 5. Carri …
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