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From: honey@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (peter honeyman)
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Subject: Re: Compressed batching software for UU
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Date: 31 May 89 01:41:15 GMT
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steve, lemme take a crack at this.

some time ago, there was discussion of the uucp "upper layer" protocol
(S SY CY et al.) and its adverse effect on trailblazer throughput when
the network traffic consists mostly of little files.  one answer
knocked around was batch smtp.  others easily come to mind.

what is the current state of the art in such systems?  is anyone
actually running a mail batching package?  (would you care to describe
it at the baltimore usenix work-in-progress session?)

	peter