Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 - Support for compression to be removed

[Julien ÉLIE <[e-mail]>]

Hi Yoav,

> And you don’t usually need 25 Mbps for NNTP, although the last time
> I actually used NNTP was over a 56Kbps modem.

Yep, accessing text-only newsgroups is fine with a 56Kbps modem, though 
getting overview data (roughly the headers of the articles) may take 
time on the "subscription" to a new newsgroup.  Compressing it reduces 
that time significantly.
People who download binaries via NNTP will need more band-width but 
well, that's their problem.

One should not forget another use case for NNTP:  the exchange of 
articles between two news servers.  Feeding articles requires more 
band-width.  Not much for a text-only feed of course.  As for a full 
binary feed, compression will be welcome (a news server may inject 
binaries and send them to dozens of peers at the same time, which 
consumes band-width).

-- 
Julien ÉLIE

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