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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.

Oh sure I could just log on my shell account and use pine and tin, and be
online, and just zip on though messages, but sorry to say it's still much
faster this way in the long run.  If it wasn't, what use would a offline
reader be?

By the way there is a ONLINE option in thor.  You can go into the System
Config and switch frm TCP to TCP_ONLINE.  Which HEY, if you have another
phone line just for your computer, and/or connected 24hra a day, then hey,
ONLINE is just fine.

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.