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gzip does not, as far as I am aware, create an archive of multiple files and folders as does tar, zip, etc. It uses a compression algorithm to shrink the file size, as such, it should be re-classified under the ZIP-based MIME type.

A ZIP-based MIME type is one that is based off of the ZIP file format; that means things like JAR, XML-based Microsoft Office files, XPI, etc.

I think perhaps you are objecting to GZip being called an archive type?

@GPHemsley yes,