On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 18:57, Rus Foster wrote: > On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > > > Nowhere on God's green Earth do you find one protocol in the > > modern Internet being 90 times faster than another. > > > > This is possible but *only* if the file is very compressable [...]
While in _theory_ I'll buy the argument, in reality I have never yet seen a 90:1 compression ratio on any file, ever, on any platform, or with any algorithm. About the best I've seen in real life is 30:1. So, although there may be some esoteric example out there, I'm willing to stand by my original argument as applies to his transmission of an 80MB file. (Which, by the way, is not likely to be text unless he's both publishing a book and being pretty eccentric...) Don't mean to be anal, just continuing the argument for fun. -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
