[H-GEN] Compressing mail

[fbrand]

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Sorry about this, but I am in P-NG at present and can not reply normally
so I am telneting in to uq and using pine.

My understanding is that the compressing of mail items is not very useful
with modern modems which compress before sending anyway. I have always
been led to believe that if an attachment is compressed and then goes
through the compression algorith of a modem then it emerges about the same
size. OTOH if it is left uncompressed and then compressed by the modem the
result is just about the same.

Am I correct?

Frank Brand
fbrand at uq.net.au


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