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therein ◴[31 Mar 25 09:28 UTC] No.43532935[source]▶

Interesting no attempt has been made to make it at least be less heavy on networked bytes. Especially since it is old and was meant to be used on a connection with no compression or encryption.

HasChildren could have been Parent, HasNoChildren could have been Leaf or Child. And so many more things.

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1. ocdtrekkie ◴[31 Mar 25 13:07 UTC] No.43534618[source]▶

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When every new Gmail client ships with an entire web browser embedded to load their hundred megabytes of JavaScript, I think we've long jumped the shark on caring about brevity in the length of information in the protocol itself.

It might have mattered back then but now it would be less than a rounding error.

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