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by srean 98 days ago
That's why a base and a delta. Whereas PP was talking about general compression algorithm, my question was different.

In line with the original comment, I was asking about specialized "codecs" for gmail.

Humans do not read the same email many times. That makes it a good target for compression. I believe machines do read the same email many times, but that could be architected around.