Date:	Sat, 24 Dec 94 15:21:58 EST
From:	peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu (Bob Babcock)
To:	turnbull AT shako DOT sk DOT tsukuba DOT ac DOT jp
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: DJGPP list archives
Reply-To:	babcock AT cfa DOT harvard DOT edu

> gzip'ed, those archives are respectively 555KB and 365KB.  A bit much
> for anyone operating over a telephone line, even at 14.4Kbps.

If gzip is doing its job, filtering out duplicates and long message quotes
won't shrink the compressed files very much.

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