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From: glc@akgua.UUCP (G.L. Cleveland [Lindsay])
Newsgroups: net.news.b
Subject: Re: Why can't uucp transfer news articles from where they sit?
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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 20:55:26 EST
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>Xrefnews is fine if used on local (free) telephone lines.  On long
>distance lines, however, it would be very important to be able to batch
>and compress the news.  As fas as I know xrefnews has nothing to support
>that.  So xrefnews saves the disk space of our server by increases our
>phone bill by at least 50% each month.  Any *real* solutions to the
>problem out there?

  If you are a server to 14+ sites, it save you a *lot* of disk
space!

  It would seem the "best" solution is to support an in-line
compress/decompress protocol in uucp.  That way, not only would the
news articles be automatically compressed at the time of
transmission, but *all* data transmitted by uucp could be
compressed with no action needed on the part of any user.  

  How about it?  Any hackers out there implemented a "Z" protocol
which perhaps uses the 2.10.2 compress/decompress program?


Cheers,
  Lindsay

Lindsay Cleveland  (...{ihnp4|mcnc|sdcsvax|clyde}!akgua!glc)
AT&T Technologies/Bell Laboratories ... Atlanta, Ga
(404) 447-3909 ...  Cornet 583-3909