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From: kianusch@unigold.UUCP (Kianusch Sayah Karadji)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.d
Subject: Re: compressed postings (was Re: Read this...>
Message-ID: <49@unigold.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jan 91 05:28:06 GMT
References: <4418@network.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: kianusch@unigold.UUCP (Kianusch Sayah Karadji)
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In article <4418@network.ucsd.edu> slamont@network.ucsd.edu (Steve Lamont) writes:
>
>It seems that what the discussion *should* center around is more efficient
>file transport and/or storage methods, not whether the postings themselves
>should be compressed/encoded/whatevered.  All of this compression/
>decompression and so forth should be invisible to the ultimate
>reader/user.  Making the individual reader go through this process is very
>user unfriendly.
>

Yup... I compleatly agree with that ...

... but also if somebody really has problems typing 'man uucico', or 
'man uncompress' ... well they shouldn't be trying to compile any
of the source codes posted here, because they woulnd't know what
they were doing anyway, and that could be dangerouse for them... :-)

							Kianusch