On Sat, 14 Mar 2015, Kai Richter wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> that's why the tosser simply inspects the bundle to see what the 
 ml> compression ratio is before unpacking... it seems that many 
 ml> developers have forgotten how to do these common things as has 
 ml> been done since at least the 90s...

 KR> I'll always like to learn, which common tossers did/do so?

fastecho has done so over here for years... there are others which also
followed but i don't know their names any more...

)\/(ark