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From: Iain Hibbert
Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 00:00

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Chris Croughton <chris@keris.demon.co.uk> writes:
> If you (or anyone else) can come up with a good algorithm to decide when
> "everything's finished", I'd like to hear it - my machine runs
> unattended most of the time, and those extra 2 minutes at the end of the
> session add up...

I just run everything serially

send mail
send news
get news

and drop the connection right away..  usually the incoming mail is finished
at that point, but if it isn't then it will arrive the next day in due course.

--
]ain

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Date: 1995/11/12
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