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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Someone told me that ssh was quite good at compressing things, so I
> switched compression on and used the following select method:
> 
> (nntp "news"
>        (nntp-address "copper.uio.no")
>        (nntp-rlogin-program "ssh")
>        (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-rlogin)
>        (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
>        (nntp-rlogin-parameters
>         ("telnet" "news.uio.no" "nntp")))
> 

As root, I envoke ssh with: 

# ssh -C -o "CompressionLevel 9" -L 119:news.iglou.com:119 iglou.com 

and set the select method to (nntp "localhost").  ssh definitely
rulez.