How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90%

Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by dredmorbius on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @01:31PM (#3617499)

Further efficiencies can be gained by removing extraneous apostrophes from possessive "its".

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Re:How Mailinator compresses its email stream by 90% by pjscott on Tuesday February 21, 2012 @08:03PM (#3618804)

While that would result in decreased entropy that a decent general-purpose compression algorithm like LZ77 could take advantage of, this preprocessing step is lossy and probably not worth the bytes it would save you.

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