What is an efficient way to send large data over the wire?
<p>I have a list of strings <code>List&lt;string&gt;</code>. Actually is a list of file paths. And I need to send it to a webservice.  The list can contain huge count of items (1 000 - 10 000).</p>

<p>What would be the most efficient way to accomplish this? considering that the message payload will be quite high.</p>

<p>I am asking for ideas and principles, not code samples.</p>

<p>Thanks much.</p>
