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From: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
Newsgroups: net.mail,net.news
Subject: Re: Data compression to lower phone
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Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 09:35:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  5 09:35:56 1986
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Reply-To: dw@rocksvax.UUCP (Don Wegeng)
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Summary: 

In article <1015@k.cs.cmu.edu> mcb@k.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Browne) writes:
>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.

Conceptually speaking the header is not part of the message, it is part
of the envelope of the message. One could compress the message itself, but
leave the envelope intact. This is quite similar to the way email ought to
be handled.

Of course this ignores the fact that someone has to implement the software
to do this, and the net as a whole has to be persuaded to use the new
software. History shows that with Usenet neither is easy.

/Don
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Everybody wants a happy ending.

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