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tracy@sal.lonestar.org (Tracy Harton) writes:

>  I've got a question I've been thinking about for a while... Would it be
>  possible to compress outgoing mail via UUCP?  Since you can compress
>  newsgroups, why not mail?

   There isn't any reason that we _shouldn't_ be able to do compressed mail
as well as news. However, you have to have a host that is capable and
willing to do this for you in both directions.

   I wanted to do this with my former Internet Forwarder, but they were
unwilling to install and run the necessary software to do it. This is even
though others besides myself have requested this capability in order to
lower our connection costs. I can see where it wouldn't serve the providers
best interest to do batching of mail because it would tend to lower their
income, but they could always make it up in volume or depend more on other
services they provide.

>  Can you just modify the .XQT file to have it
>  uncompress before processing on the other end?

   I don't think it's quite this simple unfortunately and requires special
software on both ends (or modifications to same) to make it work.

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