From: Francois Felix Ingrand <felix@dial.oleane.com>
Subject: Re: Is there a compressed nntp protocol?
Date: 14 Mar 1998 22:48:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86en057xkq.fsf@dial.oleane.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "13 Mar 1998 22:22:59 +0100"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Francois Felix Ingrand <felix@laas.fr> writes:
>
> > Now that I use agent... I was just wondering if there is compressed "mode"
> > in NNTP. After all, when downloading headers and bodies, a compression would
> > do miracles...
>
> If you're downloading over modem, it wouldn't mean much at all, since
> modems compress on-the-fly.
Well... I use an ISDN adapter and the protocol I use HDLC (I think) does not
compress. I will check with my ISP if a compressed protocol exist.
> But I don't have any plans for adding support for compressed NNTP,
> which is (I understand) supported by some experimental nntp servers.
Do you know the NNTP command to see if a server is supporting such protocol?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-03-14 21:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-03-09 9:17 Francois Felix Ingrand
1998-03-13 21:22 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-14 21:48 ` Francois Felix Ingrand [this message]
1998-03-19 13:24 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-20 8:41 ` Francois Felix Ingrand
1998-03-18 20:22 ` Jonas Kvarnström
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