compressing mailinglist archives

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From
Wolfram Schneider <wosch@apfel.de>
Date
5 Jul 1997 03:25:18
Subject
compressing mailinglist archives
Message-ID
199707051010.MAA00800@panke.panke.de


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I made a test between gzip and bzip for compressing mailinglist
archives. Bzip is 20% better than gzip. E.g. if you have 500MB
gzip'd mails, bzip would only need 400MB.
 
uncompressed
	22246042 Bytes
gzip
	 5325479 Bytes
bzip
	 4152802 Bytes
 
 
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Wolfram Schneider    <wosch@apfel.de>    http://www.apfel.de/~wosch/
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