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  1. Newsgroups: alt.sources
  2. Path: wupost!newsfeed.rice.edu!rice!news.sesqui.net!bti!news.uh.edu!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sun4nl!hgatenl!tedux.hobby.nl!mo.hobby.nl!vdpas.hobby.nl!toon
  3. From: toon@vdpas.hobby.nl (Toon van der Pas)
  4. Subject: Re: fortune program and file
  5. Distribution: usa
  6. Organization: De kromme
  7. Message-ID: <CvH4B2.3GJ@vdpas.hobby.nl>
  8. References: <CvB7zo.5Jq@txnews.amd.com> <CvBDxn.Awo@newsserver.pixel.kodak.com> <33v4hs$bcs@gopher.cs.uofs.edu> <CvDL81.56J@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
  9. Date: Thu, 1 Sep 1994 23:08:52 GMT
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  12. jvb7u@fermi.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jon Brinkmann) writes:
  13. >In article <33v4hs$bcs@gopher.cs.uofs.edu>, bill@triangle.cs.uofs.edu (Bill Gunshannon) writes:
  14. >...
  15. >> |> It is. Its zipped and uuencoded.
  16. >> |> 
  17. >> 
  18. >> Why??
  19. >
  20. >To save bandwidth (which we've now wasted anyway ;`)
  21.  
  22. No no!
  23. Most (if not all) newsfeeds are compressing batches before sending.
  24. Chances are that you _lose_ bandwidth by posting compressed articles.
  25.  
  26. Toon.
  27. -- 
  28. Toon van der Pas                                     Tel.: +31 3403 53162
  29. Zomervlinderberm 24                                  Email: toon@vdpas.hobby.nl
  30. 3994 WP  Houten
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