[ZWeb] Compressing the mailing list archives

R. David Murray bitz@bitdance.com
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:11:00 -0400 (EDT)


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