@Krzysztof Kosinski:
> The simple user doesn't recognize the difference between 
> compression and archiving, because he has no use for 
> archiving. Why would anyone want to clump files together
> if it offers no savings in disk space?

On the contrary, the simple user nowdays doesn't care about 
file sizes and disk space, but does care about attaching a 
dozen files to an email vs. attaching one archive.

(The ideal fix for that use case would be to support attaching 
whole directories.  They can be transparently converted to an 
archive when you attach them and exploded to a directory 
when you save an attachment.  But this won't be ubuquitous 
any time soon, so we still need an easy way to explicitly handle 
archives.)

Anyway, I agree with your analysis of "Compress..." being best.

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"Archive Manager" doesn't mean anything if you don't know what an "archive" is
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