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1 total messages Started by All Sun, 02 Mar 1997 00:00
Re: If this gets out ..
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Author: All
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 1997 00:00
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guy@swampdog.demon.co.uk  previously gibbered to All  ... 

 Hiya Guy ... wow, one got out!! 

 >> I recently upgraded my Modem to 28,800 but can't get better than
 >> 1200 cps on receiving newsgroups.
 g> I'm lucky to get 900cps at 19,200.

Ugh!!! ;-( 

 g> This is a tricky one. Part of the problem is Nos, and some of those
 g> in turn are due to file access times - which again could be down to
 g> fragmentation or just a slow HD. Interestingly, on those rare

So I need a newer nos but 0.45 won't send any mail, so I'm stuck as I am it 
seems ;-)) 

 g> argument that demon news is slow - at least for us non PC peeps 'cos
 g> iirc Nos does not use the same retrieval method.

It is slow .. even with the proper software on a PC ;-)) I've seen my Dads 
getting mail and ugh!! 

 g> I can't try 0.45 - I need POP3 for my pipex account. I'll be
 g> upgrading as soon as Mike gets it done though. 0.46 hopefully? <G>

There is (was) a Pop3 replacement version about ??? 

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