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From: cmaag@csd4.milw.wisc.edu (Christopher N Maag)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Expansion after compression for MS-DOS arc files
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Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 11:17:34 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 11:17:34 1987
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In article <2218@mcdchg.UUCP> heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby) writes:
[...]
>I took the uuencoded .ARC file and ran it through "compress" on my
>UNIX system.  The resulting file was 153,259 bytes long.  Then, I
>took the originally typed in document (the product of running the
>file through uudecode and ARC) and ran *it* through "compress".
>The resulting file was 96,373 bytes long.  So, for those news links
>where the administrators care about costs, we went through all kinds
>of extra work to COST THEM AN EXTRA 55K BYTES!
>
>Come on, people.  If it's ASCII text, like a document or source code,
>POST IT IN CLEAR TEXT!
>
>Thank you very much.
>-- 
>Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix

I have seen people complain (with good reason) about this problem
before.  I would like to suggest that "whoever is in charge" add a
line or two to the newuser announcements that would explain the problem
described above.  For instance: 

"If you submit a file to one of the newsgroups and you wish to uuencode
 the file, _do not_ perform any type of file compression to this
 file before uuencoding it.  This means don't arc the file, (insert
 other popular compression schemes for other computer systems here).
 If you do compress the file, it will actually get _larger_ when it is
 sent than it was originally.  This costs us all money."

Is this group the right place to suggest something like this?  If not,
please direct me to the correct one.

Chris.
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