Xref: utzoo comp.mail.uucp:4352 comp.sources.d:5440 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pdn!tscs!tct!chip From: chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: WANTED: News compression information... Message-ID: <266660F2.1D12@tct.uucp> Date: 1 Jun 90 12:34:58 GMT References: <1990May29.202056.26271@ox.com> Organization: ComDev/TCT, Sarasota, FL Lines: 14 According to bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield): >In article <1990May29.202056.26271@ox.com> time@ox.com (Tim Endres) writes: >>Do all news feeds compress at 16 bits or 12 bits? >Hard to say, but I don't know of any doing 12-bit compression. But >then, I don't run in those circles. By default, C News uses 12-bit compression. Its authors, Geoff Collyer and Henry Spencer, are compulsive measurers [:-)]. Their measurements of the relative efficiency of 12- and 16-bit compression on news batches indicated that it wasn't that much of a gain, especially considering how large a 16-bit compression process is compared to a 12-bit compression process. -- Chip, the new t.b answer man ,