Hi Michiel,

On 2018-02-05 14:46:15, you wrote to me:

 WV>> Some people still prefer compressed:

 MvdV> Some people still prefer gas light over electric. If we have to halt
 MvdV> progress because a small number of people still prefer the old way,
there
 MvdV> would be no progress.

Progress would be using a better compression algorithm! ;)

 WV>> For storage it also has it's advantages:
 WV>> - Less space used.

 MvdV> Mwah.. The ENTIRE Fidonews archive from day 1 till today is less than
100Mb
 MvdV> uncompressed. Less than 0,25% of my smallest Hard Drive. Try to buy a HD
 MvdV> smaller than 40GB these days.

You shouldn't just store fidonews in compressed form, but all your files as
much as possible, than it matters.

It's just like voting in general elections, your single vote probably doesn't
matter, so you could argue that it's useless for the individual to cast his
vote. But if everybody thought like that, and nobody would vote, that would
influence the outcome big time...

 MvdV> Plus that nothing stops anyone from using their preferred
 MvdV> compression for archiving purposes.

That argument also works the other way arround. Nothing stops you (or anyone
else), to decompress the received zip file, and store it uncompressed.

 WV>> That would break the chronological order of the files when you list a
 WV>> directory with FNEWS (zip)files alphabetically (which most
 WV>> filesystems do).

 MvdV> Do as I do, store each year in a sperate directory.

That's extra work, and not necessary currently.

 WV>> I suggest changing FNEWS to FNEWT. Maybe not so nice,

 MvdV> Rightout ugly.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. ;)

 MvdV> And if not... we can use FNEWS0A1.NWS for the first issue of 2044.
 MvdV> Just like we do with numbers on a car's license plate. Nobody
 MvdV> complains that /those/ do not sort chronologically.

That's apples and oranges. License plates are never stored in a directory where
they can be sorted alphabetical/chronological.

Bye, Wilfred.

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