[Foundation-l] BitTorrent Downloads of enwiki Images

[Anthony]

On 3/9/07, Jeff V. Merkey <jmerkey at wolfmountaingroup.com> wrote:
> I have developed an automated C based server system which mirrors all
> Wikipedia images and compiles them into .bz2 archives as a library based
> on XML revision and dump.

How much compression did the .bz2 provide?  This would be much more
useful as a .tar.

Also, echoing others, what do you need approval for?

Anthony