Re: [OSCon 2005] rfc Open Source Dynamic Data Compression

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On Thu, 2005-02-03 at 17:11, Dan Brian wrote:
>  The fact that Google uses compression 
> automatically dispels the reasons people might not find your session 
> interesting: "compression is not generally compatible with most web 
> browsers", "nobody is using compression", etc. My suggestion is that 
> you use the fact that some of the top sites do use it successfully to 
> create interest. I'd put that right in your session description. To 
> emphasize what Stas said, you need to advertise what you are doing. 
> That includes hooking their interest with the information that says, 
> "the best know something that the rest of you don't", rather than "only 
> 6% of you are using compression", to which anybody can draw their own 
> incorrect conclusions. :-)
> 

Thank you for the brilliant idea, Dan! I didn't catch on it initially...
Let me see how to incorporate it better... Won't you offer a patch?

Thanks,
Slava