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From: gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: TidBITS 5/21/90 - Issue 6
Message-ID: <71100009@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 29 May 90 22:06:00 GMT
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Nf-From: p.cs.uiuc.edu!gillies    May 29 17:06:00 1990


I sure wish this tidbits stuff wasn't encoded in binhex.  it's much
smaller than the comp.sys.mac.digest, which is not encoded -- why must
tidbits be encoded?  Don't most usenet news site use data compression
in transmission, making obviating the need for binhex?