Plautus writes:

This is just a technical issue, in the abstract, but before anyone else points it out, I'd like to say that the apparent jump in size of the archive (increased traffic in this forum) occured with little or no input from me.

There is no jump in the size of the archive. When the current month is compressed in gzip format, it will only come to about 350K or so, I think. It might actually be slightly smaller than last month's.