Rick,
Now I see what you are saying. However, we must consider a few other factors in the ergometric analysis:
1. To send a compressed file, it must be compressed...and that requires a bit of hunting and mouse clicking; this is front end pain.
2. To do it my way requires right clicking the mouse, and hunting for the proper folder, this is back end pain.
3. There is also the finite but rare possibilty that file may become corrupted during the compression-decompression process.
4. And furthermore....
Marquo