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From: steve@ntmtka.mn.org (Steve Wahl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Important new program: cleanit.c
Message-ID: <1679@ntmtka.mn.org>
Date: 12 Oct 89 19:44:16 GMT
References: <3492@ast.cs.vu.nl> <2992@ndsuvax.UUCP> <3604@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: steve@ntmtka.mn.org (Steve Wahl)
Organization: Northern Telecom Inc., Minnetonka,MN
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In article <3604@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>In article <2992@ndsuvax.UUCP> ncoverby@ndsuvax.UUCP (Glen Overby) writes:
>>I resent having to deal with uuencoded files just for Bitnet.  
>
>On the whole, I agree with you.  However, an additional advantage of doing
>it this way is compress + uuencode saves something like 25% of the bandwidth,
>and this is going to be very large, so that is definitely worth something.

I don't believe this is true; I was under the impression that most sites
compress everything before they exchange the news with other sites; I know
ours does, and I can't imagine that any long-distance site doesn't.  And
compressing an already compressed file is most always a lose in terms of
bandwidth.  Top it off - it is a pain.  This has been discussed in many other
groups before, and what I state here is usually the conclusion.

--> Steve

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