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From: honey@down.FUN (code 101)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: low information content on usenet
Message-ID: <400@down.FUN>
Date: Mon, 31-Dec-84 01:32:22 EST
Article-I.D.: down.400
Posted: Mon Dec 31 01:32:22 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 07:38:14 EST
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Organization: EECS Dept., Princeton University
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just for kicks, i took 100 articles out of unix-wizards (more or
less at random), deleted the headers, trailers, bug killers, cutesy
signatures, and unmodified quoted text.  this took me from 141998
bytes to 64188 bytes, a 55% reduction.

i'm sure there is a lesson here somewhere.
	peter