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Re: Simplified News-by-Mail signup (was: New newsgroups for LEGO Direct and the LEGO Company)
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Sun, 16 Apr 2000 02:07:27 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote in message ...
[2] Best case 10 seconds, typical case 45 to 100 seconds.  Slower if your • ISP's
   mailserver is overloaded or if you've asked for digest delivery.

Also slower if you use POP3 and poll the mail server, and especially if you
manually initiate all mail downloads...

Of course it is still possible to be more timely than a newsfeed.

Frank



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  Re: Simplified News-by-Mail signup (was: New newsgroups for LEGO Direct and the LEGO Company)
 
(...) Oh. Just recommended in this case and the other .announce groups...not for all groups. (Sorry for the confusion.) (...) The benefits of e-mail delivery are few -- compared to NNTP -- but one thing e-mail beats NNTP hands-down for is messages (...) (25 years ago, 15-Apr-00, to lugnet.admin.general)  

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