One other possible area where we could achieve a great deal of
compression is in the actual messages themselves. We can compress SGMl
tags by replacing the SGML GI with a 2 digit (hex) index number, and by
reducing the end tag to </>, and still remain textual. For the actual
message body, any number of quick, and lossless techniques will work,
and get an easy 12-25% reduction in size, and we still remian textual.