----- Original Message ----- From: Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de>

"Joshua Hutchinson" <joshua@hutchinson.net> writes:

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There will always be plain text files available.

You do more harm than good with these "plain text files". At least, please adjust your filename conventions:

foo.zip -> foo-7.zip foo-8.zip -> foo.zip

Otherwise you can fool the innocent downloader easily. And stop wasting bandwidth: delete all .txt files if a .zip file is available.

Personally, I lump 8-bit and 7-bit text files together when I say plain text files. I wouldn't shed a single tear if we did away with the 7-bit text files from here on out. Then again, I personally, wouldn't shed a tear if we did away with text files completely, but that is a personal preference. 7bit files aren't any easier to read than 8bit files and the lost information (accents, etc) can be significant. As far as the having everything .zip ... that's being a little anal, don'tcha think? Josh