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From: ronald@robobar.co.uk (Ronald S H Khoo)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: Compress and nntpxmit
Message-ID: <1990Dec21.094652.2045@robobar.co.uk>
Date: 21 Dec 90 09:46:52 GMT
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rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) writes:

> 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.

Well, different people have different networks.  There is a case for an
option to compress, for the benefit of those doing full newsfeeds over
a 2400 baud SLIP link.

But I stress *OPTION* -- I certainly don't want to compress NNTP feeds
over the ether ....


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