Henri,
 
HD> Not only space, but als transportation costs and time.
HD> OffLine compression (ZIP) is always mucht better than online, i.e.
HD> NMP/V42.
 
Transportation cost and time have become irrelevant.
 
HD> MvdV>>> Mwah.. The ENTIRE Fidonews archive from day 1 till today is
HD> MvdV>>> less than 100Mb uncompressed. Less than 0,25% of my smallest
HD> MvdV>>> Hard Drive. Try to buy a HD smaller than 40GB these days.
 
HD> Many are using old HD's.
 
So did I until they started producing too many errors.
 
Just this week I bought a WD 1TB drive for 50Euro to help someone disc whose
was showing problems ... 1TB for 50 Euro? Who still wants the old crap.
 
HD> but since the second run of the 3 letter 3 figure car plates,
HD> I lost the order, i.e. which combination is which year.
HD> After more runs of 3L, 3F combinations, we got 1F, 3L, 2F,
HD> or 2F, 3L, 1F, etc.  Once I saw the nice one: 1-TZT-99.
HD> Wich six characters you can keep it compact, in stead of Belgian cars
HD> from many start wich 1 and some king got all the fines ;-).
 
The composition of license plates for cars is now settled on a European wide
basis ...
 
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