Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:54:54 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> To: Paul Robinson <wigstah@akitanet.co.uk> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it>, Arnout Boer <arnout@xs4all.nl>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why not gzip iso images? Message-ID: <53794.953128494@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:43:27 GMT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0003151431580.4176-100000@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
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On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:43:27 GMT, Paul Robinson wrote: > If you save 20Mb, over a reliable 56Kb modem, you've saved them somewhere > in the region of one and a half hours... I think you guys are too used to > your broadband... :) And you're forgetting that, as I said in my original reply, people with 56K modems usually benefit from hardware compression over their link anyway. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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