Re: ADMIN: linux-kernel-digest/linux-kernel

Chris Wedgwood (chris@cyphercom.com)
Fri, 31 Oct 1997 03:26:14 +1300


Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:03:07 -0500 (EST)
From: linux kernel account <linker@nightshade.z.ml.org>
To: Henner Eisen <eis@baty.hanse.de>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: ADMIN: linux-kernel-digest/linux-kernel

On 29 Oct 1997, Henner Eisen wrote:

> - providing a gzipped version of the digest (would save even more CPU
> cycles as well as bandwidth)

Compressing with gzip is prob. too costly.. Anyone know any easy
compress and hard decompress algs for english text?

Why? Compressing it before exploding it would I should think make the
overall load sufficiently lower because the outgoing mail would be lighter.

Compressing it for each and every recipient would, however, be horrendous.

-Chris