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 Message 1797 
 Ozz Nixon to Wilfred van Velzen 
 Another Feature/Issue... 
 15 Feb 19 10:48:06 
 
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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