[H-GEN] Compressing mail

[Marshall, Joshua]

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> if it is left uncompressed and then compressed by the modem the
> result is just about the same.
> 
> Am I correct?

Not quite. The compression algorithm performed by the modem is not nearly as
good as a proper compression utility. Consider that the window used by the
modem is much smaller due to the size of it's buffers.

In a way there is another item to note and that is the amount of pure
bandwidth that is consumed: Some of us are charged per byte, and so
compressing the files is of use.

Cheers,
Josh.

P.S. I found that IspMailGate which David Wood pointed out to me (thanks!)
has a module built in to compress files (and a stack of other nice utils,
check it out, search on CPAN)

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