Compacting folders

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From: "Happy" <happy@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:50:16 -0400

I noticed in one of the newsletters, instructions on how to compact oe
folders.
Can someone give me an idea as to why a person would want to do this? As an
extension of this, why would one want to compact news folders.

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