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> Many BBSs had leech ratios - you needed to upload stuff as well. Ashamed to admit I was unzipping my zips and re-zipping them with `pkzip -e0 ...` to disable
by addingnumbers 5y ago
> Many BBSs had leech ratios - you needed to upload stuff as well.
Ashamed to admit I was unzipping my zips and re-zipping them with `pkzip -e0 ...` to disable the compression before uploading them to another BBS. It inflated my upload ratio several times over and the upload looked unbelievably fast because zmodem transfer protocol would do decent in-line compression on uncompressed files.
- michaelrpeskin 5y agoYes! I did the same thing. So funny to hear that here. There was also a BBS that had a door for queuing downloads that just assumed everyone had a 14.4K modem, and I only had a 2400. When you picked your downloads to queue up, it checked your minutes to check if you had enough time. But since it did the math wrong I was able to queue up more downloads than my minutes allowed. Since it was a door, it didn’t return to the BBS software until my downloads were done. Fun times!