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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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