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From: mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne)
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Subject: Re: Data compression to lower phone
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Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 12:46:38 EDT
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In article <2369@phri.UUCP> roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
>In article <8200002@nucsrl> gore@nucsrl.UUCP writes:
>> [...] a site that passes news articles to other sites could just pass
>> on the compressed form (and tack on a compressed form of articles
>> originate from it).
>
>	Funny, I was just talking with someone this afternoon about this.
>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.

OK, so don't compress the whole article, just the body and headers that you
don't have to look at or change.  The headers that you need can be put at
the beginning and the compressed part can appear after a blank line.

Gee, that was easy, which means that I'm undoubtably missing some subtle (or
not so subtle) point.
	--Mike
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