[ZWeb] Compressing the mailing list archives

Andreas Jung andreas@andreas-jung.com
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 20:14:27 +0200


sounds like a good idea ;-)

--On Donnerstag, 17. Oktober 2002 14:11 -0400 "R. David Murray" 
<bitz@bitdance.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Andreas Jung wrote:
>> Well....I don't prefer a special protocol...except the data
>> should be compressed in some way ;-)
>
> Most rsync implementations use compression during transit.  In addition,
> once you've made the initial copy, only *changes* are transmitted on
> any subsequent rsync.  Seems to me you might like that aspect <grin>.
>
> --RDM
>
>




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