Zipped folders containing InDesign files

Hi,
I'm providing advertising material (ads in InDesign) on a FTP server ; the folders containing layouts and links are compressed in .zip.
Some users can't open the .indd files, it seems they got corrupted, either while the FTP transfer or the zipping process.
Has anybody heard of trouble with zipped InDesign files ? Should I compress them in .sit instead ??
Any help greatly appreciated !
jean-philippe

One of the best reasons for zipping transferred files (whether transferred by email or FTP) is precisely so that you *know* about file corruption. If your users can extract the .indd file from the zip file, then the zip file made it through intact. If they can't extract the .indd file, then the zip file got corrupted.
Because your users are able to unzip the .indd file you can be assured that they're getting the same .indd file you put into the zip file. There's some other reason they can't open the .indd files.
In what way can they not open your .indd files? Do they get an error message?
Ken

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