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Message   Ozz Nixon    Wilfred van Velzen   Another Feature/Issue...   February 15, 2019
 10:48 AM *  

Hello Wilfred.

14 Feb 19 23:07, you wrote to me:

 WV> Hi Ozz,

 WV> On 2019-02-14 10:23:58, you wrote to me:

 WV> Current fidonet over the internet, is so fast, that most sessions only
 WV> exchange a single pkt file, with only a single or a few messages,
 WV> typically a few hundreds or thousands bytes. It makes no sense
 WV> starting up a compression program, that writes them to an compressed
 WV> "intermediate" file on disk before transmission, when most of those
 WV> pkt files fit into a single tcp/ip frame. Or when binkp can compress
 WV> them on the fly which doesn't require extra disk writes and reads for
 WV> the compressed data.

True for Fidonet - however, other networks I am on push hundreds of messages
per poll. But, I only poll them 2 or 3 times a day - and they are extremely
active. No problem.

Ozz

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