Unnecessary tar-compress-uuencodes

Chip Salzenberg chip at tct.uucp
Tue Jul 10 22:58:04 AEST 1990


According to kirkenda at eecs.UUCP (Steve Kirkendall):
>So sites with compressed newsfeeds don't care a whole lot, but those with
>uncompressed feeds DO care.

If anyone is insane enough to run an uncompressed newsfeed, then he
deserves what he gets.

>Any sites with little free disk space also benefit from the
>compression.

Sites with little disk space shouldn't be receiving the sources
groups.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg at ComDev/TCT     <chip at tct.uucp>, <uunet!ateng!tct!chip>



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