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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: Why aren't new articles compressed?
Summary: funny you should ask
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Date: 30 Oct 89 00:15:11 GMT
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I just ran this article size breakdown today (includes headers):

Kbytes  Count     %     Kbytes   Count    %
    1  14915  29.4%	   11     62   0.1%
    2  22971  45.3%	   12     57   0.1%
    3   6779  13.4%	   13     41   0.1%
    4   2636   5.2%	   14     29   0.1%
    5   1216   2.4%	   15     47   0.1%
    6    620   1.2%	   16     21   0.0%
    7    355   0.7%	   17     23   0.0%
    8    220   0.4%	   18     25   0.0%
    9    138   0.3%	   19     22   0.0%
   10    100   0.2%	>= 20    438   0.8%