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To: ranfry@mala.proteus.qc.ca (Ranfry) 
 On 01-21-93 Ranfry wrote to All... 
 
 R >  True, but UUCP BBS, such as mine, connect, usualy, much faster 
 R > with the Internet.  I have exchange mail with friends all over the 
 R > world, 
 R > sometimes taking less than an hour for the mail to get from the sender 
 R > to 
 R > me.  Can you honestly say FidoNet boards do that?  Not likely, since 
 R > the 
 R > hubs only exchange mail during the cheap hours, which makes sense.  My 
 R > connection, and most UUCP boards' too, are done much more often than 
 R > that. 
 
I can honestly say that some fidonet boards can do that.  I know 
that board that I am on, sends out mail to the gateway as soon 
as I log off.  Then it's all up to the gateway how long it takes 
to put it onto the internet.  As you say it's usually done 
straight away.  As for imcoming mail, does your UUCP board poll 
your hub, or does the hub call your board when it has mail for 
it?  If a local Network is being used (such as MTLnet), then 
since the calls are NOT long distance, it would be possible to 
set up a board that polls the UUCP gateway every 1/2 hour.   
 
Tiny tim 
 
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