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Comment: Disambiguated "message set" in Compression chapter

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Kafka supports batch compression of a message set. Batch compression is important as individual messages may not have sufficient redundancy to enable good compression rations. Batch compression is supported by allowing the value field of a message to hold a compressed message set in the format defined above with the message's attributes field of the message set to indicate the compression codec used.

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