Hi Ozz,   
      
   On 2019-02-15 10:48:06, you wrote to me:   
      
    WV>> Current fidonet over the internet, is so fast, that most sessions   
    WV>> only exchange a single pkt file, with only a single or a few   
    WV>> messages, typically a few hundreds or thousands bytes. It makes no   
    WV>> sense starting up a compression program, that writes them to an   
    WV>> compressed "intermediate" file on disk before transmission, when most   
    WV>> of those pkt files fit into a single tcp/ip frame. Or when binkp can   
    WV>> compress them on the fly which doesn't require extra disk writes and   
    WV>> reads for the compressed data.   
      
    ON> True for Fidonet - however, other networks I am on push hundreds of   
    ON> messages per poll. But, I only poll them 2 or 3 times a day - and they are   
    ON> extremely active. No problem.   
      
   That's a use-case where compression makes sense. So it's a good thing you can   
   choose for each connection if you want compression or not! ;)   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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