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From: jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: trailers and their subtleties
Message-ID: <17701@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: 13 Sep 88 04:34:57 GMT
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Reply-To: jbn@glacier.UUCP (John B. Nagle)
Organization: Stanford University
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     Trailers were a bad idea whose time has passed.  Even under Berkeley
UNIX on a VAX, their home ground, the performance improvement was very
marginal.  

					John Nagle