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Re: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply)

Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com> Wed, 19 February 1997 18:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: TO COMPRESS OR NOT TO CMPRS (please reply)
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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 13:58:06 -0500
From: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com>
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> While GIF files do likely make up a large percentage of traffic over
> dial-up links, I don't imagine that security functionality will be
> enabled/negotiated while viewing web pages. ....

> Corrections to my thinking?

"web access" includes access to company-internal websites, which (like
all other web sites) are frequently decorated by inane little GIF's.

For one, my employer is already doing a large amount of internal
administrative "paperwork" and publishing over the web, saving many
trees as a result...

					- Bill

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