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From: emc@unicus.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Telebit TrailBlazer
Message-ID: <1357@unicus.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 12:13:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 28 12:13:35 1987
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Reply-To: emc@unicus.UUCP (Eric M. Carroll)
Organization: Unicus Corporation, Toronto, Ont, Canada
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sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes in comp.dcom.modems regarding the Telebit
Trailblazer:

> The biggest problem with mail traffic now seems to be the inter-file pauses.
> With typical small mail files, plus the X. files, you tend to have a couple
> of seconds (2-6, depending on system load etc) between each file. This can
> add up to an overhead which exceeds the actuall time to send the mail
> message. What we need is a simple method to bundle messages together into a
> "mailbag" for delivery. 
> -- 
> {ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision,uunet}!van-bc!Stuart.Lynne Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532

Is anyone running the Telebit Trailblazer with the Batched SMTP (bsmtp)
posted to comp.sources.unix a while ago? I would think that may clear up
the old problem of many small uucp files slowing uucp down, especially when
it really counts like on the Trailblazer.

-- 
	Eric Carroll 			Unicus Corporation, Toronto Ont.
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