[geeks] thoughts on SMTP

[David Passmore]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:46:52PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> I installed mod_gzip.  Works *great*, has reduced my web bandwidth use a
> bit.  Why hasnt someone created something like this for email?  Could
> be a SMTP option, to gzip the mail streams on the fly...

Glargh. Because it would kill a whole bunch of mail servers. Most ISP mail
servers are architected to simply pass a buttload of data, not perform
computationally expensive tasks on that data.

David