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Subject: Re: amoeba??
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Date: 22 Mar 91 22:22:46 GMT
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mjh@cs.vu.nl (Maarten J Huisjes) wrote:
> This is becoming a comedy of errors
This message is one as well, see below.

> [ stuff deleted ]
> 
> } -- Everyone should compress and uuencode his diff's --
> NO!
YESSSSSSSSSSSS !
I myself posted quite some bytes contianing code, and if I would get a
`gulden' for each flame I got, I wouldn't have to go to work anymore...

Compression is indeed questionable, since _most_ (not all!) systems forward
news in compressed format.  Other systems (like my internal network) use
compressing modem lines.

However, all sources _should_ be encoded with either "uue(ncode)", or
"atob".  This ensures the correct transmission of the posted material
over non-ASCII links like Bitnet (== IBM, EBCDIC, Yuck).  Such links
would otherwise truncate long lines, nuke TAB characters, munge certain
sequences of characters, and more ...

Try sending a 50,000 byte file _in_source_format_ to a BITNET host, and
start praying.  Chances are about 100% that you'll get a "please resend"
or "@(&^$(*&$_#&" message back :-)

Fred.