toad (Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:06:02PM +0100): > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:50:01AM -0400, Tavin Cole wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 03:19:13AM +0100, Michael Rogers wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:45:38AM -0700, Mr.Bad wrote: > > > > For small files, like plain text and HTML, you really don't get much > > > > bang for your buck by compressing them, at least w/r/t on-the-wire > > > > transfer time. > > > > > > Why are text and HTML necessarily small? People might want to insert > > > books, HOWTOs etc as well as web pages. > > > > And if they did they'd be silly not to compress them first. > They might want them browseable. If we have an optional metadata header a la > HTTP's Transfer-Encoding, they can be compressed and browseable.
wasn't this the original sugestion??? -- moritz i wish people would like really long sigs.... _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list Devl at freenetproject.org http://lists.freenetproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devl >From - Wed May 2 08:52:55 2001 Return-Path: <devl-admin at freenetproject.org> Received: from hawk.freenetproject.org (postfix@[4.18.42.11]) by funky.danky.com (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA23067 for <danello at danky.com>; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 14:47:36 -0400
