Re: [Shutup] [ietf-smtp] Compressing SMTP streams

Russ Allbery <eagle@eyrie.org> Fri, 29 January 2016 21:20 UTC

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+ietf-nntp, who may be interested

"John Levine" <johnl@taugh.com> writes:

> Well, in that case, here's a straw man proposal.

[snip proposal for COMPRESS extension to smtp]

BTW, in the NNTP world, we're currently testing:

    http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-murchison-nntp-compress-01.html

and will probably have a new version of that draft based on early interop
results.

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Russ Allbery (eagle@eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>