Hi mark.

25 May 17 17:55:14, you wrote to me:

 ml> true but in some cases, maybe not... i had a link in washington state that
 ml> was way out in the boonies and had some really attrocious lines... they had
 ml> huge troubles downloading large bundles... one problem was new mail being
 ml> added to it after the transfer had failed so the next time they had to
 ml> start all over again pulling a larger bundle... we switched them to raw
 ml> PKTs which were much smaller and they could get them all over numerous
 ml> connections without having to start all over again each time...

Yes. There are always special cases.

 TK>> I prefer receiving mail zipped to my point.

 ml> i do raw PKTs everywhere... why waste the resources to zip them when
 ml> the
 ml> mailer and network protocols can compress them on the fly? ;)

The compression is irrelevant nowadays when tranferring over the internet.
But if a point (or node) polls mail only once or twice a day, it might be
nice to transfer only one file instead of one hundred or so. At lest the
log files look better. ;)

Ok, it is possible to combine many .pkts to one. In that case arcmail sure
is not needed. :)

'Tommi

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