Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!inria!rouaix
From: rouaix@inria.UUCP (Francois Rouaix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Source/Binary Groups Encoding (+ suggestion)
Summary: my $0.02
Message-ID: <719@inria.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 88 09:10:15 GMT
References: <8806211453.AA20562@decwrl.dec.com>
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In article <8806211453.AA20562@decwrl.dec.com>, plouff@nac.dec.com (Wes Plouff) writes:
> Pat said (by mail) that except where directory structure needs to be
> preserved, the moderators are now posting only shar files containing 
> straight source and uuencoded binary files.  Excellent!

IMHO, excellent is not really appropriate...
Let's examine the Master_weave posting:
among the files were a picture and some pattern files.
ARC was able to compress the pattern files over 90%. This means that an
arc file containing all pattern files and uuencoded would have been less
6k large (just try it!), compared to the 100k+ of the 3 uuencode-shar 
postings.
Amazingly, the picture file has also a very high compression ratio.

This is NOT a flame. I understand the motivations of having a unique and
simple archiving system, BUT sometimes... 


And now for the suggestion:
I would like to find, from times to times, a posting that tells me what 
the next postings on the moderated grousp are going to be.
Maybe every 10 'grouped' postings ?
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