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From: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Source code newsgroup for MS-DOS
Message-ID: <2143@rpp386.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 88 02:40:04 GMT
References: <1555@bu-tyng.bu.edu> <3186@bsu-cs.UUCP> <11803@ut-sally.UUCP> <7978@brl-smoke.ARPA> <4827@teddy.UUCP>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.UUCP (The Beach Bum)
Organization: Big "D" Home for Wayward Hackers
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In article <4827@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>In article <7978@brl-smoke.ARPA> w8sdz@brl.arpa (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR|towson) <w8sdz>) writes:
>>I don't agree that another newsgroup is needed for sources.  There is no
>>need to post clear text when we can package related files in ARCs ...
>
>As has already been discussed several times, this is a BAD IDEA.  Arc'ing
>text files (program source files) causes significantly HIGHER transmission
>costs for most usenet sites!

generally this is true.  it is possible however to suppress
file compression using the more reasonable arc commands.  if
you are sending out files which have been batched into arc
files that may suffer from being re-compressed, simply don't
have the files compressed when they are placed into the arc
archive.

- john.
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