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Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?



on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:00:51AM +0000, Clive Standbridge (sink@ghaary.connectfree.co.uk) wrote:
> On Fri 12 Dec 2003 19:14:25 +0000(+0200), Anton Zinoviev wrote:
> 
> > computer I use?  Is the following scenario possible somehow: First, I
> > connect to Internet in order to get automaticaly the first messages
> > from each thread.  Then read the received messages offline.  Next by
> > some "subscription" mechanism I connect again and receive all messages
> > from threads I have selected.
> 
> Alternatively, reduce your online overhead by subscribing to 
> debian-user-digest instead of debian-user.

No.  You get all the traffic in undigestable chunks.

Peace.

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