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From: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Newsgroups: net.sources.d
Subject: Re: Posting compressed info
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Date: Wed, 27-Aug-86 18:24:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: maynard.336
Posted: Wed Aug 27 18:24:57 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 27-Aug-86 21:48:20 EDT
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Reply-To: campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell)
Organization: The Boston Software Works Inc., Maynard, MA
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Keywords: cost, compress, uuencode

In article  heiby@cuae2.UUCP (-Ron Heiby) writes:
>This article is in response to an article in net.sources which is just
>one example of a misguided trend.  That is, the use of compression and
>uuencoding by posters of "large" text information.  ...
>                                                   ... many sites don't
>have the uudecode program or the compress program, so can't read the
>posting at all.  This means that they are paying to transmit "less" (see
>below) bytes, but none of them are usable by that site.

And some sites (like mine) are 16-bit machines that can't uncompress
files compressed with "-b 13" or greater (the S2575 text was posted with
"-b 14").  I would be most grateful if someone could mail me the clear
text of S2575, or the text compressed with "-b 12" (AFTER first offering
and getting a response from me, of course -- I don't want to get fifteen
copies!).
-- 
Larry Campbell                             The Boston Software Works, Inc.
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