RE: Ben's Big Patch
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From: owner-xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org
[mailto:owner-xemacs-betaï¼ xemacs.org]On Behalf Of Andy Piper
Sent: 20 July 2000 11:12
To: Ben Wing; Aaron Lehmann
Cc: XEmacs Patches List; XEmacs NT List; XEmacs beta list
Subject: Re: Ben's Big Patch
At 07:50 PM 7/19/00 -0700, Ben Wing wrote:
>i've never heard any actual complaints from these modem users.
typically,
the
>complaints only come from people who assume, like you, that
other users will
>have problems.
I'm a modem user and I think you ought to have compressed it. But I also
don't download messages over a certain size anyway so its not a huge
inconvenience.
Actually, compressing it might well make it download slower
overall. Modems are generally very good at compressing text
documents themselves, whereas they're hopeless at (e.g.)
gzip archives. Besides, compressing it would only result
in the compressed file being uuencoded or something; that
would be even worse ;-).
Kind regards,
Alastair.
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Alastair Houghton ajhoughton(a)lineone.net