Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes

[Doug Davis]

In article <sean.647630062 at s.ms.uky.edu> sean at ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:
>Compressing an article reduces phone time. If compress finds a file
>is bigger after compression, it doesn't compress it. So the phone
>costs really aren't increased by users doing their own compression.

This works for files, the current news software doesn't take advantage 
of compress like that. If you pipe into compress it WILL ALWAYS OUTPUT
compressed style data, either smaller or larger depending on the
effect of the algorythm.


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