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From: phil@portal.UUcp (Phil Sih)
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Subject: Re: Data compression to lower phone
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Date: Fri, 6-Jun-86 00:32:22 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  6 00:32:22 1986
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Summary: why compress everything?

In article <2369@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> 	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.

Wouldn't it be possible to compress only the invariant portion of the
data and not compress the headers?  Perhaps this would involve too much
change to the mail and news systems.  Considering some of the volume
that goes into the data part of net.sources and .maps (or .politics :-)
it might get nearly the same effect as compressing the whole thing.

       Phil Sih at Portal Communications Company, Cupertino, CA
	
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