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From: lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Personal netnodes?
Message-ID: <695@vortex.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Jun-85 01:55:28 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 17 01:55:28 1985
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There's a major reason why people will tend to want personal nodes
rather than simple logins.  With a personal node, they have most of the
mail/news handling software on their local machine and often have the 
data flowing in when they're not around.  This way they don't have
to handle all the messages at relatively low speeds--they can instead
operate at very fast local speeds with their own fast local
editors.  It makes a BIG difference.  I could never handle the mail/news
load I have now (even though I've cut way back on news) if I wasn't
doing it locally.  Even 2400 bps seems like a snail's pace for reading
messages...

--Lauren--