Acincy.167 NET.news,net.news utzoo!decvax!duke!cincy!chris Sun Aug 16 15:14:34 1981 Big news files Perhaps a partial fix to the objections to big news files (this goes back a while, folks), would be to have news pack files whenever possible and have rnews recognize packed files. This would save (according to the pack man page) about 35+%. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.