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From: rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Compress and nntpxmit
Message-ID: <3124@litchi.bbn.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 14:52:31 GMT
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In <1990Dec18.094942.5125@st_nik!swindon.ingr.com> nik@st_nik!swindon.ingr.com (Nik Simpson x333) writes:
>	Is it possible to get nntpxmit to compress news batches it transmits,
>this seems an obvious optimisation to make.
I don't think it's obvious at all, really.  You're increasing the amount of
CPU time on both machines at the cost of lesser TCP time.

I think that for more sites, the network is much cheaper than the CPU.
	/r$
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