Subj : Compression in Binkd
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Wed Jan 27 2016 05:11 pm

Hello Wilfred,

On Wednesday January 27 2016 08:35, you wrote to Bj”rn Felten:

 BF>>    I see absolutely no advantage with that. I have an abundance
 BF>> of bandwidth. Almost all connections is done within a second.

 WV> You said almost, but just last week I had a 3 hour binkd connection,
 WV> that could have been done 70x faster, with better compression! And
 WV> that connection interfered with other (fido) processes.

Yeah, it made a just in time, same as last week pointlist segment to be 
delivered five minutes late. Big deal.

 WV> Compression is still very usefull in todays internet!

It was a one time incident that is unlikely to ever be repeated in that way. 
One does not base policy on a one time, never to be repeated incident.


Cheers, Michiel

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