Re: Why not as a newsgroup?
On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:53:50PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Newsgroups allow you to only download the subject lines of the
> messages instead of have to download all messages whether you
> would have read them or not. I'm glad you have a 56k connection,
How many Unix newsreaders offer this?
> but keep in mind there are others with only 33.6 or 28.8
> connections. Downloading 400-500 messages at 28.8, or less, still
> takes awhile.
Folks, I can only recommend you to get a UUCP account with your provider or
bully them very hard if they don't offer this. I have one and am subscribed to
like 20 mailinglists with several hundred messages a day. They get compressed
at my provider's system and I download them within one minute. Even without
ISDN it wouldn't take me more than two or three minutes. So with UUCP
connection time is no issue.
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