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+%.

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