The Essay is Done.

[Forrest J. Cavalier III]

>On Wed, Sep 01, 1999 at 02:31:02 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
>>     It's in zip format; apologies to gzip purists but
>>     I am just way too tired to work it all right now
>>     when I can use the Zip-O-Matic pull-down ...
>> 
>> At present, there is no free software which can decode it. 
>
> Counterproof using only software from Debian proper which (barring mishaps
> of which we of course like to be informed) consists of DFSG-free software.

[snip]

...All of which would be avoided had the author put the large
document on a web page, and then sent just the URL.
Sending a message 200K in length to a discussion mailing list
is bad netiquette.