Aaron Voisine <voisine at ByteMobile.com> writes:

> > This seems like a problem in search of a solution. The stuff that
> > needs compressing is already compressed. The stuff that isn't already
> > compressed, like HTML files and text files, is small enough that
> > compressing it is going to take longer than sending over the wire raw.
> >
> > It's just not convincing.
> 
> I disagree. I think the way things are set up now, a significant portion
> of a freenet user's time is spent reading HTML and other
> compressable formats in search of media files.

...which are tiny anyway.  It's not a big win.

-S

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