poor uucp performance - help! (LONG)

[Bret Orsburn]

In article <1990Feb17.063412.18455 at rancho.uucp> rock at rancho.uucp (Rock Kent) writes:
>
>4.  Make sure that you have compression turned off.  You don't want to
>    be compressing already compressed news batches.
>

OK, I'll bite: Why not?

Surely, compression will be less effective the second time, but is there
any good reason to disable it? Do you have any data to demonstrate that
throughput is *decreased* by enabling compression for a compressed newsfeed?


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