[Mailman-Users] gzipped archives

[Marc Merlin]

On dim, avr 02, 2000 at 08:19:41 -0500, David Champion wrote:
> On 2000.04.02, in <4.3.1.0.20000402194958.00a91390 at mail.zefex.com>,
> 	"Jeff Fiegel" <jeff at mail.zefex.com> wrote:
> > 	I am confused about the gzipping of the archives....  It doesnt appear 
> > that the txt.gz archive files are actually gzipped????
> 
> Web browsers have an unfortunate tendency to uncompress .Z and .gx
> files on the fly, though they sometimes leave .tar.(Z|gz) and these
> wretched .tgz files alone.

That would be netscape.
If you set the following Xresource to nothing, the problem goes away:
Netscape*encodingFilters:

Marc
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