:What's of concern to me is allowable size on i.s.p. machines.
:Most only allow 5mb of space to your account and zip
:might break under those limits for packing news.
This is where the UQ_MAX_BLOCKS variable comes in handy. I've found
that setting it to 16000 yields a compressed packet of about 750Kb
(about 2Mb uncompressed). This is far more than I'd normally download
in a day ...
Note: 1 block = 128 bytes