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- From: kainaw@cris.com (CS Wagner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 03:19:07 GMT
- Organization: Concentric Internet Services
- Message-ID: <1867.6628T1337T1541@cris.com>
- References: <4bu7f9$nt6@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net> <4dceed$4t0@news.uit.no><4f6i1r$2q7@larry.utah.com>
- <2687.6611T550T1941@cris.com> <1116.6627T79T1017@icenet.no>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: crc7.cris.com
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
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- On 23-Feb-96 05:19:20, Petter Nilsen wrote in comp.sys.amiga.networking about
- Re: Best Mail Program for use with SLIP, SMTP, POP, AmiTCP?:
- >In article <2687.6611T550T1941@cris.com>, kainaw@cris.com (CS Wagner) wrote:
-
- >> Now that's a bit unfair, so I shut down, then loaded it again after 3 hours
- >> - waiting for about 50 posts to pop up (This is a fast group, too bad 99%
- >> of the posts are AOL users saying 'me too')
- >> TIN: 18 minutes
- >> GRn: 8 minutes
- >> THOR: 8 minutes
-
- >> It appears to me that GRn and THOR match up ok, but TIN is much slower. Now
- >> add in THOR's ability to load selected headers, scan them, and load the
- >> selected articles, THOR is much faster in actual use then GRn.
-
- >Just curious, what method did you use to collect these articles in THOR? The
- >newsbrowser or the automated GetNews? If you used the last method, did you
- >use more than a single socket?
-
- >---
- >\\\\\\ Petter Nilsen - IRC #amiga: Mitchman - pettern@icenet.no |\
- > >>>>>>============================================================| >
- >////// THOR Team Coordinator - http://www.icenet.no/~pettern |/
-
- >There's safety in numbers: F16, F11, B2, F15....
-
- I used the newsbrowser. It is obvious that the multiple sockets for the
- automated getnews would completely blow away TIN and GRn. However, the
- newsbrowser also has xover which allows you edit out the 'me too!' posts
- which makes for another unfair advantage. But then aren't unfair advantages
- what you, as a user, wants?
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