Topic awaiting preservation: HTML Compression

I'm interested in solutions for HTML compression for my classic asp pages. I'd like a solution that I can implement in code, so instead of:

Response.Write(buffered_uncompressed_content)

I'd have:

Response.Write(buffered_compressed_content)

Is this possible, or am I smok'n something? Must I configure IIS? I've heard that this is buggy in 5.0, and not sure about 6.0.

Karl..