On 17:28 25 Jan 2002, David T-G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Off-topic meandering: | I think it would be lovely to automatically compress all email before | sending and have it opened on the other end, but that not only gets | into more MIME types (I think it could be done pretty easily but haven't | played with it, and certainly haven't thought about the troubles of, say, | searching within a compressed mail body) but also costs processing power | to package up and then open up the item. For those on a dialup link, | though, it could be a real blessing.
I fetch my email with fetchmail. Via ssh to my ISP. I just turn on compression in the ssh connection. But bear in mind that some of the speed of a 56kbps modem _is_ done with compression by the modems themselves, so precompressed content still comes down at the native bitrate, which is still in the 33kbps range as I recall. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Craft, n. A fool's substitute for brains. - The Devil's Dictionary
