on Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 07:10:11PM +0000, Clive Standbridge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sat 13 Dec 2003 01:14:53 +0000(-0800), Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > > Alternatively, reduce your online overhead by subscribing to > > > debian-user-digest instead of debian-user. > > > > No. You get all the traffic in undigestable chunks. > > Chunks, yes (that's the point). Indigestible, no. The second paragraph of > my previous mail explained how to extract the individual messages.
I sort of kicked myself after sending that -- I've used formail on digests (decided I'd rather have the un-munged messages to play with), and am familiar with the idea. Point I was making: you're getting The Whole Damned Thing, with no selection by topic or content. > And it works. My daily email (most of it from debian-user) used to take > 20-30 minutes to download; since I switched to the digest it takes less > than 5. What's your fetch mode? I'm finding that fetchmail over 56k is taking ~5-10 seconds per message (mostly depending on how much Swen I've got). Is the per-message overhead really that high? Is the digest compressed at all (I doubt this). ...OTOH, it may reduce a lot of the overhead of full headers. > It's a viable solution to the stated problem of a "slow and expensive > connection to Internet". Whether it suits the originator of this > thread more or less than than the other suggestions is another matter, > of course. True. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? SCO is the thief who puts a gun to his own head and says give me your money or I'll shoot. -- Bruce Perens http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=56225&&cid=5456337
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