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|    Wilfred van Velzen to Ozz Nixon    |
|    Re: Another Feature/Issue...    |
|    14 Feb 19 23:07:43    |
      Hi Ozz,              On 2019-02-14 10:23:58, you wrote to me:               ON> My uplink sends compressed, which to make makes much more sense then        ON> compress on the fly (personal preference).              Current fidonet over the internet, is so fast, that most sessions only       exchange a single pkt file, with only a single or a few messages, typically a       few hundreds or thousands bytes. It makes no sense starting up a compression       program, that writes them to an compressed "intermediate" file on disk before       transmission, when most of those pkt files fit into a single tcp/ip frame. Or       when binkp can compress them on the fly which doesn't require extra disk       writes and reads for the compressed data.              Bye, Wilfred.              --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815        * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)    |
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