Awatmath.1790 net.news utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!bstempleton Thu Feb 18 15:30:23 1982 reducing costs The E files of course would NOT need to mention a file for standard input, or would rather have a special code to indicate that the input on this execution is inside the E file. The format would thus not be as shown. Compaction is a good idea. Do all sites have a common dictionary? if they do, articles could be composed of huffman encoded indexes into the dictionary (a damn fine way of compacting text anyway) Savings would be tremendous. Unless I miss my guess, net traffic might reduce to 1/3 if done right. That is a lot of bucks. If anybody out there is on a commercial site that supports news with management approval, they could easily convince management to have a programmer spend a little time on it since it would pay for the time quite quickly. Perhaps uuxqt could be altered to include a facility so that each uuxqt job calls some other process when it is finished. Thus if rnews actually bunches together files to be sent off, the actual sending could be done by a process initiated at the termination of the uuxqt. This would make sense in general, anyway. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.