Subj : Re: Netmail in the insecure inbound
To   : Matthias Hertzog
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed May 05 2021 08:43:08

Hi Matthias,

On 2021-05-05 05:11:34, you wrote to Kai Richter:

 MH> 100% agree. Echomail historically was sent compressed. You know, cost
 MH> savings in POTS. Nowdays, echomail is no longer compressed prior
 MH> to sending as BinkD does a good job ab it anyway. That reduces
 MH> tosser processing times.
 MH> When i re-started my fidonet operations, i was a fan of compressing
 MH> outbound echomails but got convinced after a few tests and some
 MH> statistics, that compressing with the tosser/packer is no longer
 MH> needed.

 MH> In fact, i no longer have any of my links/feeds running with
 MH> packed echomails. TBH, i've even disabled the unpacking feature
 MH> at all, even in secure inbound.

 MH> I've agreed with all my links/feeds, that we deliver eachother
 MH> uncompressed and that's it.

I sometimes turn on compression for links that are offline for a bit longer then 1 or 2 days. Because with the high frequent tossing that happens today, the outbound directories quickly fill up with hundreds of .pkt files, which I don't like. With compression turned on there are at most 7 files for each (offline) node waiting to be send. When they become connectable again I turn compression back off...

Bye, Wilfred.

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