Hello Wilfred.   
      
   14 Feb 19 23:07, you wrote to me:   
      
    WV> Hi Ozz,   
      
    WV> On 2019-02-14 10:23:58, you wrote to me:   
      
    WV> Current fidonet over the internet, is so fast, that most sessions only   
    WV> exchange a single pkt file, with only a single or a few messages,   
    WV> typically a few hundreds or thousands bytes. It makes no sense   
    WV> starting up a compression program, that writes them to an compressed   
    WV> "intermediate" file on disk before transmission, when most of those   
    WV> pkt files fit into a single tcp/ip frame. Or when binkp can compress   
    WV> them on the fly which doesn't require extra disk writes and reads for   
    WV> the compressed data.   
      
   True for Fidonet - however, other networks I am on push hundreds of messages   
   per poll. But, I only poll them 2 or 3 times a day - and they are extremely   
   active. No problem.   
      
   Ozz   
      
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