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From: larry@nstar.uucp (Larry Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: What use is Trailblazer compression?
Keywords: uucp, Trailblazer, LZW, data compression
Message-ID: <1990Jul05.140345.12605@nstar.uucp>
Date: 5 Jul 90 14:03:45 GMT
References: <1990Jul4.195351.9324@tsa.co.uk>
Organization: Northern Star Communications, Ltd.
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domo@tsa.co.uk (Dominic Dunlop) writes:

>Is Trailblazer compress any use with uucp for mail transfer?  Although I'm
>pretty sure it would be counter-productive with compressed news batches, is
>there likely to be any increase in throughput if I have my Trailblazer
>attempt to negotiate compression when exchanging plaintext mail with sites
>which are not newsfeeds?  Has anybody run tests?  Was it a win?

Here at nstar, we have our blazer set up with compression disabled
since all of our news is compressed likewise all the bbs files.

We were at one time (last year in the Xenix 386 days) running with
compression enabled in the modems and found that it actually decreased
throughput.


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