perry@wind.bellcore.com (Perry E Metzger) (03/26/89)
My apologies for posting this to alt.sources instead of comp.sources.d, but hell, no one reads comp.sources.d, and this is important. DONT POST UUENCODED COMPRESSED STUFF. Compress gets run on most stuff crossing the net, and uuencode just ends up expanding junk anyway, so you save no money and create a godamn mess to read. Post shar archives; they are neat and clean. Let the system administrators worry about how to get things from point a to point b cheaply, you just worry about your contents. DONT POST UUENCODED TAR FILES. Tar files were NOT designed for the purpose; they take up extra room, are more fragile with respect to damage, and tar isn't available on every system. Post shar archives; anyone can break them up, even by hand, they are neat and clean, and they don't alter the size of the sources much. If you must post binaries, uuencode them seperately; don't tar them. If you must post multiple binaries, you can always use a shar file with the uuencoded files in it, and shar will even uudecode things for you on arrival. Repeating for those of you out there with silly ideas... DONT GET CLEVER. USE SHAR ARCHIVES.