From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 24 11:52:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7A4E37B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:52:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.E-Technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F66343E4A for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:52:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from m2a2.myip.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E64E8A3831 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:52:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 2A4205C47F; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:52:05 +0200 (CEST) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: gzip packages on FreeBSD 4-STABLE References: <200209241843.g8OIh9uO089468@arch20m.dellroad.org> In-Reply-To: <200209241843.g8OIh9uO089468@arch20m.dellroad.org> (Archie Cobbs's message of "Tue, 24 Sep 2002 11:43:09 -0700 (PDT)") From: Matthias Andree Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:52:05 +0200 Message-ID: Lines: 12 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Archie Cobbs writes: > Megabytes are cheap and getting cheaper, while people's time and > frustration are expensive and getting more expensive... I beg to differ. Modem (V.90) links will still benefit from saved megabytes, because a MB across a modem takes like three minutes. MByte => Time => Cost. -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message