Apache: Is Realtime Compression Possible?

djoyce101 writes: "I run a public message board based on Infopop Ultimate Bulletin Board. The BBS has now grown to over 4300 members with nearly 3,000,000 requests per month. The dynamically generated pages are growing in size everyday, but my available bandwidth is not. My question is this: Is there any way to make Apache compress everything in realtime? (as long as the client supports gzip content) The server is averaging about 300MB per day, all of which can be compressed to about 50MB. I've found PHP scripts that can do this, but the BBS is all perl. Does anyone know of a way to get this done?"
You might look at mod_gzip. There are also some mod_perl compression modules which might help you out.