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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.   
      
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