On Tue, 15 Sep 2015 06:15:04 -0400, Eric Renfro wrote:

 ER> On a side note.. One interesting thing regarding compression and
message bases.
 ER> Synchronet supports compressing the body of every message in LZH
format if you
 ER> so choose, so there is /a/ message base format that can compress. heh heh.

Compression in a message base is not necessary.  An alternative (if
you run FreeBSD) is to use ZFS and setup a namespace with compression.
Or, run run FreeNAS on your file server and do it there.

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