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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: binaries postings
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Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 21:24:11 EST
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>Why is everything posted to comp.binaries.mac uncompressed? It would seem
>reasonable to me that using StuffIt to compress everything would enable
>more stuff to be posted without increasing the share of the bandwidth.
>
>For example, the technotes could be compressed by around 40%.
>
>Jason Haines

        Major USENET nodes already compress data for the transfer.

	Since you cannot send raw binary data over the usenet, you would
need to make an ascii encoding.  It is better to let the USENET nodes do
the compression on an ascii encoding of an uncompressed file rather than
on the ascii encoding of a compressed file.

						-Matt