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From: bret@codonics.COM (Bret Orsburn)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems,biz.comp.telebit,comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: poor uucp performance - help! (LONG)
Message-ID: <959@codonics.COM>
Date: 23 Feb 90 00:34:44 GMT
References: <125@cdss.UUCP> <1990Feb17.063412.18455@rancho.uucp>
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In article <1990Feb17.063412.18455@rancho.uucp> rock@rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) writes:
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>4.  Make sure that you have compression turned off.  You don't want to
>    be compressing already compressed news batches.
>

OK, I'll bite: Why not?

Surely, compression will be less effective the second time, but is there
any good reason to disable it? Do you have any data to demonstrate that
throughput is *decreased* by enabling compression for a compressed newsfeed?


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