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In article <4l8931$qfk@news.uni-c.dk>, Per Jacobsen writes:

> 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.

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.

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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