Re: NEWSWire/400-11.04.98

Dave Shaw wrote:
 
Brad wrote:

>  I use the MC forums regularily.  I don't remember having to wait more
>  than 20 seconds for any message.  Maybe a T1 line helps, but even at home
>  with dialup it's not that bad.

Jeff replied:

>  "20 seconds"  Now contrast that with newsgroups.
 
And then Brad said

> That's a worst case scenario.  Average for me is
> around 3 seconds.  And comparing it to newsgroups is like apples to
> oranges.  Actually, now that I think about it, when I download the headers for
> comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc, it takes an average of 20 seconds for 150 headers.
> Then, to retrieve the message text, it takes about 3 seconds as well...
> 
> So, on the average, they're really not that different.
 
And Dave chimed in:

> They're a LOT different for me, since I download newsgroup messages in the
> background while I do other things, then read them and compose replies
> offline.  Since I use Outlook Express for both newsgroups and e-mail, the
> interface to both is nearly identical, and equally convenient.  I've yet to
> see a Web forum that even comes close.

Exactly Dave.  Newsgroups and email is designed for this stuff.  I have
only a 33.6 modem at work.  I get easily 150 headers in 5 seconds or
less.  When clicking on a particular header to see that message, it's
_very_ rarely that I don't see that message in subsecond time.

And this doesn't take into account the management of those messages,
such as keeping, discarding, forwarding, etc. 

-- 
-Jeff

jlcrosby@fwi.com
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