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    From Dale Barnes@1:106/201 to All on Thursday, October 22, 2020 08:47:13
    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    Zip (pk, 7zip etc)
    Zoo
    ARC (remember that one)


    --- InterEcho 1.21
    * Origin: Home Of InterMail/InterEcho (1:106/201)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Dale Barnes on Thursday, October 22, 2020 11:58:55
    On 22 Oct 20 08:47:13, Dale Barnes said the following to All:

    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    I don't bother anymore, everything here goes out uncompressed.

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Jay Harris@1:229/664 to Nick Andre on Thursday, October 22, 2020 14:05:18
    On 22 Oct 2020, Nick Andre said the following...

    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    ARJ! LOL... just kidding!

    I don't bother anymore, everything here goes out uncompressed.

    Ditto!


    Jay

    ... If you're waiting for the waiter at a restaurant, aren't you the waiter?

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/13 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Northern Realms (1:229/664)
  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Jay Harris on Thursday, October 22, 2020 17:28:46
    On 22 Oct 20 14:05:18, Jay Harris said the following to Nick Andre:

    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your def archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    ARJ! LOL... just kidding!

    Why not Lha? Zoo? Pkpak? Rar?

    Nick

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)
  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Dale Barnes on Thursday, October 22, 2020 15:10:46
    Hello Dale,

    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    If nodes want mail packed it's generally zip, and most nodes do still use that. I have other archivers but zip is the most widely supported.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)
  • From Mike Miller@1:154/30.1 to Dale Barnes on Friday, October 23, 2020 10:26:38
    Hello, Dale Barnes.
    On 10/22/20 8:47 AM you wrote:

    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your
    default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail? Zip
    (pk, 7zip etc) Zoo ARC (remember that one)
    ZIP, because it's the most widely supported.

    If we weren't talking mail, then I use bzip or gzip along with tar.


    --
    Mike
    BBS: warensemble.com
    --- Hotdoged/2.13.5/Android
    * Origin: South of Heaven - warensemble.com (1:154/30.1)
  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Dale Barnes on Friday, October 23, 2020 13:58:16
    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is
    your default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your
    mail?

    I use ZIP because everyone else does. Personally I prefer ARJ.

    For my BBS and Micronet, I support ZIP, ARJ, RAR, ARC, LHA, and ARC for mail packets.

    Later,
    Sean

    ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52

    --- Maximus/2 3.01
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * bbs.outpostbbs.net:10123 (1:18/200)
  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to Jay Harris on Friday, October 23, 2020 13:59:18
    ARJ! LOL... just kidding!

    ARJ is better at compression than ZIP and RAR in most cases. I quit using
    RAR for my stuff because of backwards compatibility issues with varying versions of RAR.

    Later,
    Sean

    ___ MultiMail/Linux v0.52

    --- Maximus/2 3.01
    * Origin: Outpost BBS * bbs.outpostbbs.net:10123 (1:18/200)
  • From Jeff Smith@1:14/5 to Dale Barnes on Friday, October 23, 2020 21:09:56

    Hello Dale!

    22 Oct 20 08:47, you wrote to all:

    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    Zip (pk, 7zip etc)
    Zoo
    ARC (remember that one)


    I have several available but uunless specifically requested. I don't compress as I don't see the need these days.


    Jeff


    --- Mystic v1.12 A47/LNX (2020/10/20) GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20170303
    * Origin: Region 14 IP Server - ftn.region14.org (1:14/5)
  • From Nigel Reed@1:124/5016 to Dale Barnes on Sunday, October 25, 2020 07:42:38
    Dale wrote:
    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    Zip (pk, 7zip etc)
    Zoo
    ARC (remember that one)

    I use Synchronet so as long as there's a binary for it, I can unarchive it, that said, since a lot of boards use Windows, I use unzip for pretty much everything.
    --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux
    * Origin: End Of The Line BBS - endofthelinebbs.com (1:124/5016)
  • From Dave@1:123/35 to Dale Barnes on Sunday, October 25, 2020 10:42:47
    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    Zip (pk, 7zip etc)
    Zoo
    ARC (remember that one)


    --- InterEcho 1.21
    * Origin: Home Of InterMail/InterEcho (1:106/201

    I don't use any archiving tool, but if I were to start, I would use zip.
    --- SBBSecho 3.11-Win32
    * Origin: Information Exchange Network BBS - Summerville, SC (1:123/35)
  • From Carol Shenkenberger@1:275/100 to Dale Barnes on Saturday, October 31, 2020 12:04:58
    Re: Archiver Choice
    By: Dale Barnes to All on Thu Oct 22 2020 08:47 am

    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    Zip (pk, 7zip etc)
    Zoo
    ARC (remember that one)



    ZIP by default but still support LZH and ZOO (had a lot of amiga users once).

    xxcarol
    --- SBBSecho 2.11-Win32
    * Origin: SHENK'S EXPRESS TELNET://SHENKS.SYNCHRO.NET (1:275/100)
  • From Carol Shenkenberger@1:275/100 to Nick Andre on Saturday, October 31, 2020 12:06:05
    Re: Re: Archiver Choice
    By: Nick Andre to Jay Harris on Thu Oct 22 2020 05:28 pm

    On 22 Oct 20 14:05:18, Jay Harris said the following to Nick Andre:

    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    ARJ! LOL... just kidding!

    Why not Lha? Zoo? Pkpak? Rar?

    Nick


    Heh LHA RAR too here. Just not used in a donkey's age.

    xxcarol
    --- SBBSecho 2.11-Win32
    * Origin: SHENK'S EXPRESS TELNET://SHENKS.SYNCHRO.NET (1:275/100)
  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Dale Barnes on Thursday, November 19, 2020 06:11:29
    Re: Archiver Choice
    By: Dale Barnes to All on Thu Oct 22 2020 08:47:13


    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your
    default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    none, nada, zilch... raw pkts please... archiving FTN mail is really not needed these days... that few extra seconds spent archiving/unarchiving pkts could be used for other more important tasks... not to mention that the raw
    uncompressed pkt can be transmitted faster than the time it takes to compress it ;)


    )\/(ark
    --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux
    * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12)
  • From Dallas Hinton@1:153/7715 to Dale Barnes on Thursday, November 19, 2020 08:30:07
    Hi, Dale -- on Oct 22 2020 at 08:47, you wrote:

    Just a quick poll for those that read this echo, what is your
    default archiving tool and flavor used to bundle your mail?

    I default to zip mainly from laziness -- it's been that way for probably 15 years or more. Having said that, I can easily pack (or not pack) in any format my downlinks want -- takes only a couple of keystrokes to change.


    Cheers... Dallas

    --- timEd/NT 1.30+
    * Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver, CANADA (1:153/7715)