[tor-talk] list archive files gziped twice?

[Andrew Lewman]

On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:03:20 +0200
tagnaq <tagnaq at gmail.com> wrote:

> if I decompress one of the list archive files, for example:
> https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-April.txt.gz
> I get gzip compressed data.
> Did something go wrong when migrating the list or is there a
> particular reason to compress these files twice?

I don't see this behavior. Are you sure your browser didn't rename the
file or try to do something to it?

wget https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-April.txt.gz
--2011-04-08 11:04:38--
https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2011-April.txt.gz
Resolving lists.torproject.org... 38.229.70.18 Connecting to
lists.torproject.org|38.229.70.18|:443... connected. HTTP request sent,
awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 50075 (49K) [application/x-gzip]
Saving to: `2011-April.txt.gz'

100%[==============================================================================================================================>]
50,075      --.-K/s   in 0.1s    

2011-04-08 11:04:39 (340 KB/s) - `2011-April.txt.gz' saved [50075/50075]

file 2011-April.txt.gz 2011-April.txt.gz: gzip compressed data, was
"/var/lib/mailman/archives/priva", last modified: Thu Apr  7 23:27:02
2011, max compression

gzip -d 2011-April.txt.gz

file 2011-April.txt 
2011-April.txt: ASCII English text, with very long lines

-- 
Andrew
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