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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news
Subject: Re: Data compression to lower phone
Message-ID: <6770@utzoo.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 15:50:59 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  5 15:50:59 1986
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> There are a few problems.  The toughest one is that every article that
> passes through here has to get "phri!" prepended to its path line.  No way
> to do that without going through the uncompress/compress cycle (at least,
> not that I can see).  Pity.

With serious revisions of the organization of transmission, it could be
done.  If batches are unbatched only for local availability, then the
Path line could be attached to the batch rather than the individual
articles.  Obvious problems with this are cases where one wants selective
relaying, either because some site is not getting all the groups or
because a site is part of a loop in the net and wants to pass on only the
things it hasn't already seen.  [We have both problems.]
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