BL> A few weeks ago, I tried to send a nul 60-byte packet zipped up
BL> as 0000000c.mo0 (it ended up a bit larger in fact) and it was
BL> rejected by some dickhead sysop's system on the other end. So I
BL> stopped it zipping

PE> Oh yeah, what evidence do you have that it was "rejected"?

BL> I sent it twice and got nothing from the freq, so then I sent an
BL> 80-byte PKT unzipped and it worked.

Say that again, slowly and in English.  You sent a *.MO0, and expected that
this somehow constituted a FREQ, and then assumed that my system had
rejected the *.MO0?  A *.MO0, BY DEFINITION, is something that I decompress
(after the call) and get .PKTs from, and then process the .PKTs.  I was
wondering how on earth you could tell what my internal
processing had done with the embedded .PKTs.  I was right - you couldn't. BFN.  Paul.
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