On 09-01-2001 at 03:07, Douglas Hinds kindly wrote:
> I don't compress because compression can cause data loss
> ...
Only with bad mail programs. Do compress. Especially your
inbox must have an enourmous size by now.
> and the algorithms are proprietary, so that something
> saved using one tape drive (for instance), can't be
> recovered using the same tape on another maker's drive
> unless it's NOT compressed.
Not true. Compression within TB has nothing to do with the
algorithms used for compression when using a back-up
program.
> And as I understood it, compression occurs when closing
> TB! (which I rarely do),
That depends on your settings. You can define for each and
every folder whether it should compress on exit - and for
folders that are being used for archive purposes, setting
them thusly is rather useless.
> only to expand again on reopening it.
Nope. You must have misunderstood the idea behind
compression. TB doesn't 're-inflate' your mailboxes to a
readable format upon re-opening.
> Language means no more than the way you use it (although
> that sounds like something out of Alice in Wonderland).
Alice had this nice habit of asking ;-)
- K -
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- Jenny Newman, Seduction
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