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- From: weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg)
- Subject: Re: Question
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 04:49:27 GMT
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- In article <1jvgn2INNl97@FROG.ZOO2.CS.YALE.EDU> gugler-sean@cs.yale.edu (Sean Gugler) writes:
- >In article <acjbooks.727868446@citr.uq.oz.au> acjbooks@citr.uq.oz.au (ACJ Books (Chris)) writes:
- >>weasel@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Mike Rosenberg) writes:
- >
- >>>I have for the past few years been compiling a list of quotes. It is
- >>>currently around 47k or so. Should I post it? If I do I would post it by
- >>>moderately arbitrary topic divisions that I've put into it.
-
- >At 47k, it might be best if you'd compress and uuencode it before
- >posting, though I'm sure the net has seen worse in raw text.
-
- I've updated it and basically have it ready to go, but I haven't decided how I
- want to post it yet. It's aprox. 50k, 1490 lines or so. I've seen larger
- things, both in line number and in byte size posted to various groups in the
- past. Compressed and uuencoded it would probably save about 15k and would
- reduce the #lines to something like 550-600. This is a bit more inconvenient
- (not for me but for the reader). On the other hand, dividing it into a number
- of parts (say 3 or 5) would be slightly more inconvenient for me, possibly
- slightly inconvenient for the reader, but allows people to see what they're
- getting.
-
- As of this point, I would be tempted to just post as is, but will wait to see
- what the general consensus is.
-
- >If anyone really wants, I guess I could do the same with the files
- >I've gathered, as well; closer to 80k, some from famous sources, some
- >that I overheard personally.
-
- Probably not a bad idea, but maybe we should wait to see how one goes first :)
-
- --Weasel
-
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