on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:10:11PM +0000, Clive Standbridge (sink@ghaary.connectfree.co.uk) wrote:
> On Sat 13 Dec 2003 01:14:53 +0000(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote:
>
> > > Alternatively, reduce your online overhead by subscribing to
> > > debian-user-digest instead of debian-user.
> >
> > No. You get all the traffic in undigestable chunks.
>
> Chunks, yes (that's the point). Indigestible, no. The second paragraph of
> my previous mail explained how to extract the individual messages.
I sort of kicked myself after sending that -- I've used formail on
digests (decided I'd rather have the un-munged messages to play with),
and am familiar with the idea.
Point I was making: you're getting The Whole Damned Thing, with no
selection by topic or content.
> And it works. My daily email (most of it from debian-user) used to take
> 20-30 minutes to download; since I switched to the digest it takes less
> than 5.
What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking
~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got).
Is the per-message overhead really that high? Is the digest compressed
at all (I doubt this). ...OTOH, it may reduce a lot of the overhead of
full headers.
> It's a viable solution to the stated problem of a "slow and expensive
> connection to Internet". Whether it suits the originator of this
> thread more or less than than the other suggestions is another matter,
> of course.
True.
Peace.
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