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- From: blake@blkbox.com (Blake Scruggs)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: News Reader!!
- Date: 10 Apr 1996 18:06:46 GMT
- Organization: The Black Box, Houston, Tx (713) 480-2686
- Message-ID: <2085.6674T587T1299@blkbox.com>
- References: <4kcpkb$67r@larry.utah.com> <1921.6673T1148T1796@crl.com>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.109.96.150
- X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP) *UNREGISTERED*
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- >>Joseph Waldvogel (joewald@crl.com) wrote:
- >>: >And it doesn`t only depent on you internet provider who may or may not
- >>: >offer you unlimited time. Ever thought about a high phonebill when
- >>: >reading online? I would *never* read any mail online!
- >>:
- >>: Why Read your Mail online?
-
- >>Because it's faster? Remeber that "online" != "over a modem link".
-
- >Hows that? Maybe if you don't READ/WRITE anything at all it's faster. If
- >all your doing is scanning message headers really quick it's faster. All I
- >do is Click on DOALL from the ConnectTHOR program, I have it open up 6
- >network sockets. It grabs all the New Messages in the newsgroups I want it to
- >do that in, which is most all of them. It grab's my E-Mail and sends
- >anything. I don't even have to be around, though it doesn't take all that
- >long anyway, Under 5 mins Usually Unless I havn't been on for a few days.
-
- >I can then come back to my computer and just quit my internet connection.
- >That frees up my phone line for other things. I can then just startup THOR,
- >and I can tell it it just zips though messages quite FAST. Expecally on my
- >new 1083 Meg Drive I just got.
-
- Could'nt agree more. I spent 3 + Yrs doing the Shell/nn xxxx...;-)
- The time factor is kinda goofy tho,I now spend more time because I
- have more time.
- But 1 BIGGY is a decent HD. My old TrumpCardPro/Maxtor 345 on my A2K just
- can't handel the fast r/w's of THOR, In fact it can't handel anything
- fast....
-
- Sooo I run THOR on my 1200 50x50x32M Quantum 1.02 GIG, only 1 time/need
- to use QBack Tools and that was 'cause of a goofy MIME/Encoded file.
- Still use THOR in a seperate 50 Meg Partition which I will probably
- increase soon.
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- PS, if you decide to use THOR, make sure you also get the 'x' files
- that contain some missing Config scripts.
- They're on THOR Support and the Demon Mirror.
-
- Blake
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- Houston TX ////_\\ | but can you take it ??'
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