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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: news.groups,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: comp.sys.amiga.questions
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Date: 7 Jan 90 01:57:51 GMT
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monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine) in <574@sagpd1.UUCP> writes:

	Thad, I don't know what you read news on but there are a lot of people
    out here that read news at 1200 baud and "flipping through" 200 plus
    messages at 1200 baud is not the most pleasant thing in thew world.
    Even here at work we are limited to 9600 baud, so if you live in a
    19,200 baud or better world good for you, just remember you are a minority!

If you ARE in fact calling a online service at 1200 baud to read newsgroups,
then there IS a problem.  I agree with you, reading real-time at 1200 baud
is excruciatingly painful, esp. with large amounts of duplicated and/or
previously-posted material included.  The problem became so severe for me
(subscribing to some 55 newsgroups), that I implemented the following:

My (home) system(s) collect the stuff during the day and then I can read it
nightly at high-speed locally (either directly on my host's screen at
whatever "baud" it displays, or via a terminal (or another host) connected at
19200).  Several people I know receive stuff this way on their Amigas; I use
UNIX boxes for this purpose.

Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]