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- From: eric@wolf359.exile.org (Eric Edwards)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking
- Subject: Re: News Reader!!
- Message-ID: <Fn+qy*uB2@wolf359.exile.org>
- Date: Sat, 20 Apr 1996 07:42:33 GMT
- References: <1382.6672T1290T2624@independent.mayn.de> <4l8931$qfk@news.uni-c.dk>
- Organization: Engineers in Exile
- X-Newsreader: Arn V1.03a
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- In article <4l8931$qfk@news.uni-c.dk>, Per Jacobsen writes:
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- > Heiko Schnapp (gecko@independent.mayn.de) 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!
- >
- > True phonebills are a bother. But i keep taps on more than 40 newsgroups,
- > are you suggesting i download all of that? It would take ages, not to
- > mention gigabytes of local storage.
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- Slight exageration. I follow 140 groups. I have 250meg allocated for my
- news spool. It takes 1hour and 20 minutes each day to transfer at 14.4
- Most expire times are set at 7 days.
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- Yes, there is a fair amount of connect time. But if you do it like I do,
- via UUCP, it's not really an issue.
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