David Combs writes --- >On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 02:46:22PM -0400, William W. Arnold wrote: >> A quick check through one of the groups I read shows that >> the headers are ~40% of the total size. This doesn't matter >> if you have 1 message per file, since the average size is >> less than one block per message. But if you're putting a >> number of messages in one file (ie, mbox format) it can make >> a significant difference. (says someone who did this when >> he was in school, with a very restrictive quota) > >Thanks for the 40% info. Of course, another group I read has slightly less than 1% headers.. (binary group :-) >Now, in his header, which lines, *specifically*, >would you KEEP? > >To EASILY show what'd you keep, perhaps just copy (within >your replies (plural, please, guys)) this >entire, huge header down to the end, and then simply >delete *from that* everything that >*you* (and you, and you, my fellow trn-workers listers) >would toss. >--------- I found that a really good first pass was to remove 1) all Received: lines 2) all X- lines. That's usually more than half of the available savings right there. If I was going all the way, I'd probably strip this down to: >From trn-workers-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Wed Aug 7 14:26:57 2002 From: dalgoda@ix.netcom.com (Mike Castle) Subject: Re: (shrinking saved news): which header-lines to KEEP? References: <20020806070220.GA13581@panix.com> Message-ID: <04nria.9ta.ln@thune.mrc-home.org> To: trn-workers@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:58:25 -0700 In article <20020806070220.GA13581@panix.com>, David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com> wrote: ... ... -- -billy- warnold@erols.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf
