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- From: eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: News Reader!!
- Message-ID: <64+ny*cz2@wolf359.exile.org>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 04:54:30 GMT
- References: <4kcpkb$67r@larry.utah.com> <1921.6673T1148T1796@crl.com>
- Organization: Engineers in Exile
- X-Newsreader: Arn V1.03a
-
- In article <1921.6673T1148T1796@crl.com>, Joseph Waldvogel writes:
-
- > Reading your messages online doesn't send less Information then it does if
- > your read the same message Offline. It's the same Message. Either it gets
- > sent so that it's displayed to read it, real time, or sent to your system to
- > be temp. stored on your own computers HD. So I really don't get this
- > ONLINE=FASTER crap.
-
- It is faster if you *don't read* most of the messages. A modern online
- NNTP reader can get Subject and From: from the overview file. It need not
- download the message body or even much of the header unless the user
- actually reads the message.
-
- I read most of my news from my local (UUCP fed) spool. When I read via
- NNTP it is because I am after something unusual. The ratio of articles
- read vs subject lines read is very very small. Thor's "bundle up all the
- news from all the groups is a pre-defined list" approach doesn't work at
- all for me.
-
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