Re: RE: No compression to one node   
     By: Marc Lewis to mark lewis on Mon Oct 29 2018 19:10:46   
      
    markl> i don't know and apparently others also do not... i know that   
    markl> several squish using systems linked here are sending bundles for   
    markl> echomail instead of raw PKTs... some send netmail in a bundle and   
    markl> others have figured out a way to send netmail as PKTs...   
      
    MarcL> I'll keep digging to see if I can find something in the docs.  Why   
    MarcL> this particular node prefers to receive data uncompressed is, how   
    MarcL> shall I say it, unconventional?   
      
   ummm... it is not really unconventional... i've been doing raw PKTs here for   
   years on my old FD/RA/FE system... i'm doing it now with this new synchronet   
   installation... on the old system, one of the initial mail tossing actions was   
   to first extract all the bundles to raw PKTs... that was done via a tool known   
   as SPAZ... the mail tosser never saw any bundles and all of my links were set   
   to no archiver so they got raw PKTs... one or two switched the archiver back to   
   zip and i switched it right back to none... even on a fast machine, the time   
   spent to archive PKTs into mail bundles is just wasted time...   
      
   there really is no reason for archiving PKTs into mail bundles these days... it   
   was done in the past mainly to shorten the connection time since that cost real   
   $$$... in today's world, this isn't a concern... then one can also factor in   
   that the server can compress on the fly during transmission and bundles are   
   just not necessary...   
      
      
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