From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/14647 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Francois Felix Ingrand Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Is there a compressed nntp protocol? Date: 14 Mar 1998 22:48:53 +0100 Organization: Felix's Inc. Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <86en057xkq.fsf@dial.oleane.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035153805 17398 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 22:43:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 22:43:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from xemacs.org (xemacs.cs.uiuc.edu [128.174.252.16]) by altair.xemacs.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA10972 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:02:22 -0800 Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by xemacs.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA18642 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:56:48 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAN24809; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 16:31:33 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:53:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id PAA21870 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 15:53:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 5833 invoked by uid 504); 17 Mar 1998 21:53:20 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5830 invoked from network); 17 Mar 1998 21:53:19 -0000 Original-Received: from relay4.oleane.net (194.2.1.6) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 17 Mar 1998 21:53:19 -0000 Original-Received: from [194.2.21.27] (dyn-27.tls.oleane.com [194.2.21.27]) by relay4.oleane.net with SMTP id WAA12441 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 22:53:15 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Phone: (33) 05 34 25 00 85 X-Url: http://worldserver.oleane.com/felix X-Face: W~8#8J"]nLJ1g;sP"Csx\7Ro@D92p1[5Egv writes: > Francois Felix Ingrand 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? -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Francois Felix INGRAND "Dieu est un fumeur de Havane." Professional: http://www.laas.fr/~felix mailto:felix@laas.fr Personal: http://worldserver.oleane.com/felix mailto:felix@dial.oleane.com