Thomas Adams wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jan 11, 1999 at 05:53:50PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote:
>
> > Newsgroups allow you to only download the subject lines of the
> > messages instead of have to download all messages whether you
> > would have read them or not. I'm glad you have a 56k connection,
>
> How many Unix newsreaders offer this?
Don't all news-servers provide for this, and all news-readers
implement it? The news reader in NS Communicator does the above.
> > but keep in mind there are others with only 33.6 or 28.8
> > connections. Downloading 400-500 messages at 28.8, or less, still
> > takes awhile.
>
> Folks, I can only recommend you to get a UUCP account with your provider or
> bully them very hard if they don't offer this. I have one and am subscribed to
> like 20 mailinglists with several hundred messages a day. They get compressed
> at my provider's system and I download them within one minute. Even without
> ISDN it wouldn't take me more than two or three minutes. So with UUCP
> connection time is no issue.
>
Now this is new to me. Thanks. I'll ask about this with my ISP.
--
Ed C.
