why doesn't IIS have compression turned on by default
i [am reading articles like this one][1] [and this one][2] to walk through the (tedius) steps to turn on gzip compression on IIS (6.0 in this case).  I don't understand why IIS would turn this all on by default. Who would not want to compress files going down to the browser ?? 


  [1]: http://www.smallworkarounds.net/2009/01/aspnet-iis-tricks-using-gzip.html
  [2]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/08/http-compression-and-iis-6-0.html
why doesn't IIS have compression turned on by default
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i [am reading articles like this one][1] [and this one][2] to walk through the (tedius) steps to turn on gzip compression on IIS (6.0 in this case).  I don't understand why IIS would turn this all on by default. Who would not want to compress files going down to the browser ?? 


  [1]: http://www.smallworkarounds.net/2009/01/aspnet-iis-tricks-using-gzip.html
  [2]: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/08/http-compression-and-iis-6-0.html