On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:48:46PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:41:52PM +0000, Pigeon wrote: > > But you don't get the digest version, do you? > > Nope. Never saw the point, since it's easier to deal with each > message individually. True, so I burst the digests and recover the contents as individual messages. The digest has certain advantages when you have a low-bandwidth and/or metered connection: - The overall volume of data to be downloaded is significantly reduced by the header weeding. It's not uncommon for non-weeded messages to have a lot more header than body. - The protocol overhead for fetching mail from a POP3 server is significant. It's faster to download one 30k message than ten 3k messages. - When using mailfilter or similar to de-swen the POP3 mailbox before downloading, the time taken depends on the number of messages and not on their size, so receiving the digest speeds the process up tremendously. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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