On 2018 Aug 06 16:30:52, you wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    BP>> no it really is that simple, ask the sender to not pack if he cant   
    BP>> use updated software   
      
    DH> It's an option, of course - and given the size (small) of today's   
    DH> packets, not much implication for bandwidth. It just goes against the   
    DH> grain! :-)   
      
   i just can't justify the CPU wastage... especially when looking at stats like   
   this...   
      
      
               Echomail Statistics for the period of   
      
          01 Aug 18, 00:20:07      -     05 Aug 18, 23:48:09   
      
      
                       Inbound packets : 50602   
      
      
   we're only five(!) days into the month and there's already been 50000+ PKTs   
   dropped off here :shock: they come in every few minutes... i've seen some   
   systems dropping off packets here within a minute of their last connection...   
   sometimes a connection will drop off two or three PKTs at once and then do it   
   again a few seconds later with new PKTs but hey, folks want near-real-time   
   conversations so...   
      
   so anyway, consider if that was 50000 zipped mail bundles... the time to zip   
   and unzip them is much better used for something else... add to that that some   
   mailers can compress data on the fly when transmitting it just like web   
   servers do... i just... i don't know, man... mail bundles were created to   
   solve a problem FTNs had a long long time ago... that problem was transmission   
   time... a problem that is non-existant (for the most part) these days... it   
   takes two steps right out of the processing loops and reducing the number of   
   steps needed is generally a GoodThing ;)   
      
      
      
   just for the heck of it, here's last months inbound stat...   
      
      
               Echomail Statistics for the period of   
      
          01 Jul 18, 00:17:54      -     31 Jul 18, 23:48:17   
      
      
                       Inbound packets : 274214   
      
      
      
      
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