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From: csg@pyramid.pyramid.com (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,news.admin
Subject: Re: Binary Postings (was: Errata file for UNDOCUMENTED DOS)
Message-ID: <157100@pyramid.pyramid.com>
Date: 29 May 91 20:03:49 GMT
References: <1991May25.201843.12565@uwasa.fi> <1991May27.194227.23528@demon.co.uk> <1991May27.225639.25220@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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>>The posting in question was a compressed text file. IMHO compressing and
>>uuencoding a lage text file is a far better idea that posting it in its
>>raw text format.

You are wrong. Any news link where compression is helpful is already using
compression in the news software. Compressing an article that is was already
compressed by the originator makes it larger.

Anything posted to the net should be in "raw" uncompressed format. Always.
That includes binaries.

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