Re: Use Debian mailinglists with slow connection to Internet?
On Sat 13 Dec 2003 12:51:37 +0000(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote:
> 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).
POP3/fetchmail/exim/procmail. I'm on 56k too, actually about 40k in reality.
I haven't been so lucky as to receive any Swen though. ;-)
> Is the per-message overhead really that high? Is the digest compressed
> at all (I doubt this).
It's not compressed, unless the decompression happens transparently.
> ...OTOH, it may reduce a lot of the overhead of full headers.
Hmm, the references and in-reply-to headers have been missing for the last
three weeks. Whoever broke into the Debian servers must have nicked them.
(I've notified the listmaster by the way).
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Cheers,
Clive
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