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From: dmm0t@hudson.acc.Virginia.EDU (David M. Meyer)
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Subject: Re: Compressing alt.sex.pictures files
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Date: 29 Aug 90 00:00:54 GMT
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Compressing a.s.p would be a wonderful idea, except that almost all
of the traffic is in .GIF pictures, which are already compressed
pretty thoroughly.  I'm not sure exactly what the methods used
are, but neither PKZIP nor compress actually shrinks .GIF files.

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