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From: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,news.admin
Subject: Re: some (should-be) ground-rules for submissions to comp.binaries.*
Keywords: * XBIN FILENAME FIX *
Message-ID: <643@vsi1.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 23:41:10 GMT
References: <2689@utastro.UUCP> <8604@dartvax.Dartmouth.EDU> <1381@uokmax.UUCP>
Reply-To: lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair)
Organization: VICOM Systems Inc., San Jose, CA
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Sorry to join this discussion at such a late date.  I had been ignoring it, but
while flipping through I saw the word "compress" and that disturbed me.

The vast majority of news is transported site to site compressed.  Applying
compression to postings will most likely result in an increase data transfered.