Subj : RE: No compression to one node
To   : Marc Lewis
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Oct 30 2018 09:47 am

  Re: RE: No compression to one node
  By: Marc Lewis to mark lewis on Mon Oct 29 2018 19:10:46

 markl> i don't know and apparently others also do not... i know that
 markl> several squish using systems linked here are sending bundles for
 markl> echomail instead of raw PKTs... some send netmail in a bundle and
 markl> others have figured out a way to send netmail as PKTs...

 MarcL> I'll keep digging to see if I can find something in the docs.  Why
 MarcL> this particular node prefers to receive data uncompressed is, how
 MarcL> shall I say it, unconventional?

ummm... it is not really unconventional... i've been doing raw PKTs here for
years on my old FD/RA/FE system... i'm doing it now with this new synchronet
installation... on the old system, one of the initial mail tossing actions was
to first extract all the bundles to raw PKTs... that was done via a tool known
as SPAZ... the mail tosser never saw any bundles and all of my links were set
to no archiver so they got raw PKTs... one or two switched the archiver back to
zip and i switched it right back to none... even on a fast machine, the time
spent to archive PKTs into mail bundles is just wasted time...

there really is no reason for archiving PKTs into mail bundles these days... it
was done in the past mainly to shorten the connection time since that cost real
$$$... in today's world, this isn't a concern... then one can also factor in
that the server can compress on the fly during transmission and bundles are
just not necessary...


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