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From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To: Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? 
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 13:42:11 +0100, Arnout Boer wrote:

> But for the ISO images... IS it a problem to  gzip
> them....

Well, I can think of at least one problem.  Think of the extra disk
space folks would need for the gunzip step. :-)

> They take less space on the master site and the mirror
> sites and they take less bandwidth!

I'm pretty sure that the folks most affected by this sort of thing
benefit from PPP / hardware compression anyway.

Ciao
Sheldon.


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