hannum@schubert.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) (06/01/90)
Here's something I bet none of you though of:
Every time a get a piece of mail, my machine thrashes for ~20-30 seconds. This
is *really* annoying. Of course, we all know what the solution is ...
On the other hand, I get my news via nntp from another machine, so I don't have
to put up with all the overhead. Unfortunately, the machine I get news from is
going to disappear very soon ... Blech!
As for which distribution method I prefer, it's a toss-up.
--
Virtually,
- Charles Martin Hannum II "Those who say a thing cannot be done should
(That's Charles to you!) under no circumstances stand in the way of
Please send mail to: he who is doing it." - a misqoute
hannum@schubert.psu.edujacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) (06/01/90)
I prefer a newsgroup (actually, I prefer to do it in comp.sys.next until the volume gets much higher). News postings don't take that much longer than mail anymore, ever since NNTP conquered the backbone. I pipe all mailing lists I'm on into local newsgroups anyway, since I don't want discussions cluttering up my mailbox, and so that other people can benefit from them. My mailbox is for my own mail. Jacob -- Jacob Gore Jacob@Gore.Com boulder!gore!jacob