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From: jeff@rtech.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Data compression to lower phone
Message-ID: <277@rtech.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Jun-86 02:56:58 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  5 02:56:58 1986
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> 
> 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).
> 
> 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.
> -- 
> Roy Smith, {allegra,philabs}!phri!roy

Why not compress the bodies of the articles, but not the headers?
-- 
Jeff Lichtman at rtech (Relational Technology, Inc.)
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