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In article <1k6q1eINNqai@shelley.u.washington.edu>  
billk@rose.apl.washington.edu (Bill Kooiman) writes:
> > [... MUNCH ...]
> Wouldn't this lead to increased the traffic on the net?  Because you would  
> be sending uncompressed versions around.  This would be especially  
> difficult for people running via modems.
> --Bill

You could have the ftp client on the user's side to all the compression and
decompression. Thereby, the uncompressed version would never be sent over the
net. You could even build a version of an ftp client that looked at the 
filename extensions on the files it was transferring and either automatically
decompress or prompt the user for permission to decompress (a preference).
Then, you could configure it to do any compression/decompression scheme you
wanted by having it do call outs to filter programs. You'd just need a way
to associate an extension with a filter program...

--Gregor N. Purdy
Contemporary Design Studios