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From: Macintosh Users Group
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1987 04:55

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Why is everything posted to comp.binaries.mac uncompressed? It would seem
reasonable to me that using StuffIt to compress everything would enable
more stuff to be posted without increasing the share of the bandwidth.

For example, the technotes could be compressed by around 40%.

Jason Haines

Club Mac Macintosh Users Group, Sydney, Australia
Phone Home: +61-2-73-4444
Snail:      Box 213, Holme Building, Sydney University, NSW, 2006, Australia
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UUCP:{enea,hplabs,mcvax,prlb2,uunet,ubc-vision,ukc}!munnari!runx.ips.oz!clubmac

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Message-ID: <1254@runx.ips.oz>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ipso!runx!clubmac

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ipso!runx!clubmac
From: clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: binaries postings
Message-ID: <1254@runx.ips.oz>
Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 23:55:36 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec  3 23:55:36 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 10-Dec-87 02:39:51 EST
Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
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