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From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news
Subject: Re: Data compression to lower phone
Message-ID: <9875@ucsfcgl.ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 23:38:49 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  4 23:38:49 1986
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References: <327@spdcc.UUCP> <8200002@nucsrl> <2369@phri.UUCP>
Reply-To: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL)
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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.

Well, you could just compress the message body and leave the envelope
(the part with the address) uncompressed.  What are the other problems?

		Ken Arnold